How are XSLFParagraphs divided into XSLFTextRuns?

I'm using Apache POI to read in a PowerPoint template with predefined variable placeholders( like #variable 1#) and replace the variable placeholders with a value. I'm iterating through the XSLFParagraphs on each slide and then iterating through the XSLFTextRuns associated with each XSLFParagrap

XSLFTextRun.getFontColor() returns wrong color

I'm seeing that XSLFTextRun.getFontColor() returns the wrong color in some instances. It will often return the color of a nearby element rather than the color of itself. Anybody know what would cause this and how to fix it? - To