getcolor function returns the current drawing color.
Declaration : int getcolor();
e.g. a = getcolor(); // a is an integer variable
if current drawing color is WHITE then a will be 15.
See colors in C graphics.
C programming code for getcolor
#include<conio.h>
main()
{
int gd = DETECT, gm, drawing_color;
char a[100];
initgraph(&gd,&gm,"C:\\TC\\BGI");
drawing_color = getcolor();
sprintf(a,"Current drawing color = %d", drawing_color);
outtextxy( 10, 10, a );
getch();
closegraph();
return 0;
}