Question on Text properties and color

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I am storing colors in properties files so they get stored like

Property=\#cc9933

for the color "#cc9933". It all returns fine in a string but for some reason when I set the color on a theme for the Font specifically it doesn't get set
say I have

ForegroundColor=GetProperty(property,"#cc9933")

The color doesn't get set. I have a feeling it's how the theme widget is parsing it vs a text widget. Whats odd is it also works ok in retrieving image names named after the color.

What am I missing?