diff --git a/plugins/ckeditor5-woltlab-paste-from-office/src/woltlabpastefromoffice.ts b/plugins/ckeditor5-woltlab-paste-from-office/src/woltlabpastefromoffice.ts
index 613e254..2c481ee 100644
--- a/plugins/ckeditor5-woltlab-paste-from-office/src/woltlabpastefromoffice.ts
+++ b/plugins/ckeditor5-woltlab-paste-from-office/src/woltlabpastefromoffice.ts
@@ -10,12 +10,24 @@
 import { Plugin } from "@ckeditor/ckeditor5-core";
 import {
   ClipboardContentInsertionEvent,
+  ClipboardInputTransformationEvent,
   ClipboardObserver,
   ClipboardPipeline,
 } from "@ckeditor/ckeditor5-clipboard";
-import { Model, ModelDocumentFragment } from "@ckeditor/ckeditor5-engine";
+import {
+  Model,
+  ModelDocumentFragment,
+  ViewDocumentFragment,
+  ViewElement,
+  ViewUpcastWriter,
+} from "@ckeditor/ckeditor5-engine";
+
+const INHERITED_TEXT_COLOR_VARIABLE = "--wcfContentText";
+const COLOR_STYLE = "color";
 
 export class WoltlabPasteFromOffice extends Plugin {
+  #colorNormalizer?: CanvasRenderingContext2D | null;
+
   static get pluginName() {
     return "WoltlabPasteFromOffice";
   }
@@ -23,6 +35,16 @@ export class WoltlabPasteFromOffice extends Plugin {
   init() {
     this.editor.editing.view.addObserver(ClipboardObserver);
 
+    this.editor.plugins
+      .get(ClipboardPipeline)
+      .on<ClipboardInputTransformationEvent>(
+        "inputTransformation",
+        (event, data) => {
+          this.#removeInheritedTextColor(data.content);
+        },
+        { priority: "high" },
+      );
+
     this.editor.plugins
       .get(ClipboardPipeline)
       .on<ClipboardContentInsertionEvent>("contentInsertion", (event, data) => {
@@ -36,7 +58,7 @@ export class WoltlabPasteFromOffice extends Plugin {
    * Pasting from the web version of Excel can sometimes prepend a block of CSS
    * in front of the table. This block is added as a plain text paragraph that
    * needs to be removed.
-   * 
+   *
    * This can be easily detected by checking if a paragraph followed by a table
    * is pasted and the paragraph contains certain strings that are unique to
    * MS office.
@@ -45,7 +67,7 @@ export class WoltlabPasteFromOffice extends Plugin {
     documentFragment: ModelDocumentFragment,
     model: Model,
   ): boolean {
-    let range = model.createRangeIn(documentFragment);
+    const range = model.createRangeIn(documentFragment);
     if (documentFragment.childCount !== 2) {
       return false;
     }
@@ -91,6 +113,140 @@ export class WoltlabPasteFromOffice extends Plugin {
       writer.remove(items[0]);
     });
   }
+
+  #removeInheritedTextColor(documentFragment: ViewDocumentFragment): void {
+    const colors = this.#getInheritedTextColors();
+    if (colors.size === 0) {
+      return;
+    }
+
+    const writer = new ViewUpcastWriter(documentFragment.document);
+    const range = writer.createRangeIn(documentFragment);
+    const elements = Array.from(range.getItems()).filter(
+      (item): item is ViewElement => item.is("element"),
+    );
+
+    for (const element of elements) {
+      const color = element.getStyle(COLOR_STYLE);
+      if (color === undefined) {
+        continue;
+      }
+
+      const normalizedColor = this.#normalizeColor(color);
+      if (normalizedColor !== undefined && colors.has(normalizedColor)) {
+        writer.removeStyle(COLOR_STYLE, element);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  #getInheritedTextColors(): Set<string> {
+    const colors = new Set<string>();
+    const editableElement = this.editor.ui.getEditableElement();
+
+    if (editableElement !== null) {
+      this.#addComputedTextColors(colors, editableElement);
+    }
+
+    if (document.body !== null) {
+      this.#addComputedTextColors(colors, document.body);
+    }
+
+    this.#addComputedTextColors(colors, document.documentElement);
+    this.#addStyleSheetTextColors(colors);
+
+    return colors;
+  }
+
+  #addComputedTextColors(colors: Set<string>, element: HTMLElement): void {
+    const style = getComputedStyle(element);
+
+    this.#addColor(colors, style.color);
+    this.#addColor(
+      colors,
+      style.getPropertyValue(INHERITED_TEXT_COLOR_VARIABLE),
+    );
+  }
+
+  #addStyleSheetTextColors(colors: Set<string>): void {
+    for (const styleSheet of Array.from(document.styleSheets)) {
+      let cssRules: CSSRuleList;
+
+      try {
+        cssRules = styleSheet.cssRules;
+      } catch {
+        continue;
+      }
+
+      this.#addStyleSheetRuleTextColors(colors, cssRules);
+    }
+  }
+
+  #addStyleSheetRuleTextColors(
+    colors: Set<string>,
+    cssRules: CSSRuleList,
+  ): void {
+    for (const rule of Array.from(cssRules)) {
+      if ("style" in rule) {
+        this.#addColor(
+          colors,
+          (
+            rule as CSSRule & { style: CSSStyleDeclaration }
+          ).style.getPropertyValue(INHERITED_TEXT_COLOR_VARIABLE),
+        );
+      }
+
+      if ("cssRules" in rule) {
+        this.#addStyleSheetRuleTextColors(
+          colors,
+          (rule as CSSRule & { cssRules: CSSRuleList }).cssRules,
+        );
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  #addColor(colors: Set<string>, color: string): void {
+    const normalizedColor = this.#normalizeColor(color);
+
+    if (normalizedColor !== undefined) {
+      colors.add(normalizedColor);
+    }
+  }
+
+  #normalizeColor(color: string): string | undefined {
+    const trimmedColor = color.trim();
+    if (trimmedColor === "" || trimmedColor.includes("var(")) {
+      return undefined;
+    }
+
+    const context = this.#getColorNormalizer();
+    if (context !== null) {
+      context.fillStyle = "#000001";
+      context.fillStyle = trimmedColor;
+
+      const normalizedColor = context.fillStyle.toLowerCase();
+      if (
+        normalizedColor !== "#000001" ||
+        trimmedColor.replace(/\s/g, "").toLowerCase() === "rgb(0,0,1)"
+      ) {
+        return normalizedColor;
+      }
+    }
+
+    return trimmedColor
+      .replace(/\s/g, "")
+      .replace(/^rgba\((\d+),(\d+),(\d+),(?:1|1\.0)\)$/i, "rgb($1,$2,$3)")
+      .toLowerCase();
+  }
+
+  #getColorNormalizer(): CanvasRenderingContext2D | null {
+    if (this.#colorNormalizer !== undefined) {
+      return this.#colorNormalizer;
+    }
+
+    this.#colorNormalizer = document.createElement("canvas").getContext("2d");
+
+    return this.#colorNormalizer;
+  }
 }
 
 export default WoltlabPasteFromOffice;