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The default font color in the Ambiance theme is gray and the contrast makes it hard to read. How can I keep the theme but make the font dark? I knew how to do this prior to Ubuntu 11.10 but now I can't find it. Thank you.

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  • Same problem here. Fancy desktop themes set the font color, but do not give a suggested wallpaper, which usually ends up with a dark font on a dark wallpaper.
    – karatedog
    Oct 18, 2011 at 9:15
  • Which font color are we talking about? Which program?
    – tumbleweed
    Jan 10, 2012 at 21:36

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Reset to default
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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.

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