I believe that RasMol/Chime only allow one color for all the monitors. Therefore, it was implemented this way to be compatible with existing scripts. (The same goes for the _label_ command ... all the same color)
In Chime (and RasMol), both monitor lines and labels follow the colors of the respective atoms by default. Each monitor line by default is two colors: half the color of each of the two atoms it connects. The distance number seems to be colored arbitrarily by the color of the atom which is leftmost at the time the monitor is created.
The commands "color monitors colorname/value" and "color labels colorname/value" can be used to color all EXISTING monitors with colorname/value. However, subsequently added monitors still default to atom colors. Issuing a new "color monitors" command colors ALL existing monitors, so you can't make monitors have more than one non-atom color as far as I know.
Labels behave slightly differently. By default, they inherit the colors of the atoms they label. "color labels" then colors not only all existing labels one color, but subsequently added labels. Further, the distance numbers on monitors are evidently considered "labels" and are colored (differently than the monitor lines themselves) with the "color label" command. Subsequently added monitor lines have the lines colored by atoms, but the distance number colored with the previously executed "color labels" command.
Coloring of monitors and labels is the same whether created by mouse clicks or commands.
-Eric
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