AppleScript Editor - Color issue

When saving a script as an application, it is possible to use the Font and Format menus to format text in the description area of the script window. The formatting applied to its description should appear in the script's startup screen.
Has anyone ever noticed that the color in the startup screen seems to never be the same as the one applied to the text in the description area? To get a blue text, for instance, in the startup screen, the text must be set to red in the description area.
That surely looks like a bug. Any comments?
Message was edited by: Pierre L.

Thanks for your comment.
I wasn't aware of the possibility to edit the description.rtfd file. Very interesting. However that doesn't fix the color issue. To get a blue text in the script's startup screen, the text has to be set to red in the description.rtfd file.

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