diff --git a/ui/dev/src/pages/components/chat.vue b/ui/dev/src/pages/components/chat.vue
index f75329ad9d2..d671d2c2100 100644
--- a/ui/dev/src/pages/components/chat.vue
+++ b/ui/dev/src/pages/components/chat.vue
@@ -123,8 +123,10 @@ export default {
       },
       {
         name: 'Jane',
-        text: [ 'And you?' ],
+        text: [ 'And you?', 'This bg color is #497ef2ff' ],
         sent: true,
+        bgColor: '#497ef2ff',
+        textColor: '#e4f7f6',
         avatar: 'https://cdn.quasar.dev/img/linux-avatar.png',
         stamp: 'Yesterday at 13:51'
       },
@@ -133,7 +135,9 @@ export default {
       },
       {
         name: 'Vladimir',
-        text: [ 'Fine. Nice weather today, right?', 'Hmm...' ],
+        text: [ 'Fine. Nice weather today, right?', 'Hmm...', 'This bg color is rgba(176,76,176,0.8), and text color is #f2d3f2ff' ],
+        bgColor: 'rgba(176,76,176,0.8)',
+        textColor: '#f2d3f2ff',
         avatar: 'https://cdn.quasar.dev/img/boy-avatar.png',
         stamp: '13:55'
       },
@@ -143,7 +147,9 @@ export default {
       },
       {
         name: 'Vladimir',
-        text: [ 'How are you?' ],
+        text: [ 'How are you?', 'This bg color is secondary, and text color is accent' ],
+        bgColor: 'secondary',
+        textColor: 'accent',
         avatar: 'https://cdn.quasar.dev/img/boy-avatar.png',
         stamp: 'Yesterday 13:34'
       },
diff --git a/ui/src/components/chat/QChatMessage.js b/ui/src/components/chat/QChatMessage.js
index 3b9352265a6..2f581643120 100644
--- a/ui/src/components/chat/QChatMessage.js
+++ b/ui/src/components/chat/QChatMessage.js
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
-import { h, computed } from 'vue'
+import { h, computed, toRef } from 'vue'
 
 import { createComponent } from '../../utils/private/create.js'
 import { getNormalizedVNodes } from '../../utils/private/vm.js'
+import { useTextColor } from '../../composables/private/use-color.js'
 
 export default createComponent({
   name: 'QChatMessage',
@@ -25,15 +26,22 @@ export default createComponent({
   setup (props, { slots }) {
     const op = computed(() => (props.sent === true ? 'sent' : 'received'))
 
+    const { textColorClasses: backgroundColorClasses, textColorStyles: backgroundColorStyles } = useTextColor(toRef(props, 'bgColor'))
+    const { textColorClasses, textColorStyles } = useTextColor(toRef(props, 'textColor'))
+
     const textClass = computed(() =>
-      `q-message-text-content q-message-text-content--${ op.value }`
-      + (props.textColor !== void 0 ? ` text-${ props.textColor }` : '')
+      `q-message-text-content q-message-text-content--${ op.value } ${ textColorClasses.value }`
     )
+    const textStyle = computed(() => ({
+      ...textColorStyles.value
+    }))
 
     const messageClass = computed(() =>
-      `q-message-text q-message-text--${ op.value }`
-      + (props.bgColor !== void 0 ? ` text-${ props.bgColor }` : '')
+      `q-message-text q-message-text--${ op.value } ${ backgroundColorClasses.value }`
     )
+    const messageStyle = computed(() => ({
+      ...backgroundColorStyles.value
+    }))
 
     const containerClass = computed(() =>
       'q-message-container row items-end no-wrap'
@@ -74,9 +82,10 @@ export default createComponent({
 
       return contentList.map((msg, index) => h('div', {
         key: index,
-        class: messageClass.value
+        class: messageClass.value,
+        style: messageStyle.value
       }, [
-        h('div', { class: textClass.value }, wrapStamp(content(msg)))
+        h('div', { class: textClass.value, style: textStyle.value }, wrapStamp(content(msg)))
       ]))
     }
 
diff --git a/ui/src/composables/private/use-color.js b/ui/src/composables/private/use-color.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..941e0be9499
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ui/src/composables/private/use-color.js
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+import { computed, reactive, isRef, watchEffect, toRefs } from 'vue'
+import { isCssColor } from '../../utils/colors'
+
+export function destructComputed (getter) {
+  const refs = reactive({})
+  const base = computed(getter)
+  watchEffect(() => {
+    for (const key in base.value) {
+      refs[ key ] = base.value[ key ]
+    }
+  }, { flush: 'sync' })
+  return toRefs(refs)
+}
+
+export function useColor (colors) {
+  return destructComputed(() => {
+    const classes = []
+    const styles = {}
+
+    if (colors.value.background) {
+      if (isCssColor(colors.value.background)) {
+        styles.backgroundColor = colors.value.background
+      }
+      else {
+        classes.push(`bg-${ colors.value.background }`)
+      }
+    }
+
+    if (colors.value.text) {
+      if (isCssColor(colors.value.text)) {
+        styles.color = colors.value.text
+        styles.caretColor = colors.value.text
+      }
+      else {
+        classes.push(`text-${ colors.value.text }`)
+      }
+    }
+
+    return { colorClasses: classes, colorStyles: styles }
+  })
+}
+
+export function useTextColor (props, name) {
+  const colors = computed(() => ({
+    text: isRef(props) ? props.value : (name ? props[ name ] : null)
+  }))
+
+  const {
+    colorClasses: textColorClasses,
+    colorStyles: textColorStyles
+  } = useColor(colors)
+
+  return { textColorClasses, textColorStyles }
+}
+
+export function useBackgroundColor (props, name) {
+  const colors = computed(() => ({
+    background: isRef(props) ? props.value : (name ? props[ name ] : null)
+  }))
+
+  const {
+    colorClasses: backgroundColorClasses,
+    colorStyles: backgroundColorStyles
+  } = useColor(colors)
+
+  return { backgroundColorClasses, backgroundColorStyles }
+}
diff --git a/ui/src/utils/colors.js b/ui/src/utils/colors.js
index 65a4a1ea378..96b0b74605f 100644
--- a/ui/src/utils/colors.js
+++ b/ui/src/utils/colors.js
@@ -280,6 +280,10 @@ export function getPaletteColor (colorName) {
   return rgbToHex(textToRgb(result))
 }
 
+export function isCssColor (color){
+  return !!color && /^(#|var\(--|(rgb|hsl)a?\()/.test(color)
+}
+
 export default {
   rgbToHex,
   hexToRgb,
@@ -291,5 +295,6 @@ export default {
   brightness,
   blend,
   changeAlpha,
-  getPaletteColor
+  getPaletteColor,
+  isCssColor
 }