How to determine what face is associated with a bit of text?

[Giacomo Boffi]

skip at pobox.com writes:
 > I'm having trouble figuring out what face is used to render a particular bit
 > of text.  See the attached PNG.  I'm particularly interested in the
 > hard-to-read green text.  (This was clipped from an ipython comint buffer.)

have you tried to pass to embedded ipython the switch
"-colors LightBG"?

g


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