I want to put TLA on my sites, not even close to AdSense ads. If I blend them like AdSense am I breaking AdSense TOS?
yes. ads must not look like adsense or you break the tos. why do you want to blend them like adsense?
my adsense has no border, gray background and green links, I was wondering if I use black border, gray background and green links for TLA would I be breaking the adsense TOS?
it would be better if you change the color. google said you can not put adsense with other PPC program that look similar to adsense.