I am playing with some of the example code from the progaming handbook and noticed something strange someone may be able to help with. I am seeing differing behavour in a sketch when I use the hex representaion of a color rather than the rgb representation. This is based of of example  37-04 in the typogrophy II section.

This code works fine:

PFont font;
int opacity = 0;
int direction = 1;

void setup() {
  size(100, 100);
  font = loadFont("EurekaSmallCaps-36.vlw");
  textFont(font);
}