Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-918991-20140219041951/@comment-918991-20140305234221

I emailed Wikia about this.

After many emails (in which they were convinced the Theme Designer could do this), they finally said it had to be CSS, the Theme Designer is designed to give soft contrast.

So poor readability and eyestrain is deliberate.

Wikia should take their cues from Wikipedia, Kindle reader, Gmail, any word processor, any phone's text messaging, etc. Black-on-white is standard because it's good.