Making ubuntu text black

I like my text black, so I had to find out how to make it so.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/67209/how-can-i-change-font-color

has a helpful post:



To change the system font color of the Ambiance theme from gray to black, you can edit these three files:

/usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
/usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
/usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

In these files change

text_color:#3C3C3C to text_color:#000000

fg_color:#4c4c4c to fg_color:#000000

This should greatly improve contrast and make applications' menu and dialog text much easier to read.

answered Apr 27 '12 at 23:15
user57495


note that the gtkrc is in the gtk-2.0 directory and Leafpad text wouldn't go black until I changed it.

gtk-color-scheme = "base_color:#ffffff\nfg_color:#000000\ntooltip_fg_color:#ffffff\nselected_bg_color:#f07746\nselected_fg_color:#FFFFFF\ntext_color:#000000\nbg_color:#F2F1F0\ntooltip_bg_color:#000000\nlink_color:#DD4814"