Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-918991-20140219041951/@comment-957747-20140219202557

To be fair, the default text color is a very dark gray. This color is automagically picked based on the background color within ThemeDesigner. It isn't that Wikia hates black-on-white. The #3A3A3A color is well within the pass/fail for web safe color codes (also has general contrast information too - a good read none-the-less) and works well under most circumstances.

As Jen and TK said above, you are free to change this using CSS (as it seems you already have). Slight tweaks to this automagical color could look more pleasing than this default... for instance Aion Wiki forced the main color back to black since the dark gray didn't suit the beige-ish background color well.