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SuperNova: menus and tool bars harder to read?

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I use the theme "System Theme - Auto" which is a medium bluish color. After the SuperNova update it appears darker, and/or, the fonts for the menus are a finer/thinner letters. The result is less contrast between the letters and background color, making it more difficult for aging eyes to read.

Has anybody noticed this? I tried the light theme option, which was like generic off-white wall paint, very unattractive after years of color. Is there a way to alter the font's thickness, or font used in the menus?

I use the theme "System Theme - Auto" which is a medium bluish color. After the SuperNova update it appears darker, and/or, the fonts for the menus are a finer/thinner letters. The result is less contrast between the letters and background color, making it more difficult for aging eyes to read. Has anybody noticed this? I tried the light theme option, which was like generic off-white wall paint, very unattractive after years of color. Is there a way to alter the font's thickness, or font used in the menus?

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The fonts for the Menu Bar and context menus can be adjusted with css:

/* Menu Bar font */
menubar > menu
{ font-size: 14px !important;
font-weight: bold !important;
font-family: Times, serif !important;
}

/* Submenus and context menus font */
menupopup,popup {
    font-size: 12pt !important;
    font-weight: bold !important;
    font-family: Times, serif !important;
}


Help/Troubleshooting Info, Profile Folder, Open Folder, close TB, create a new folder named chrome, create a new document in chrome with a text editor, name it userChrome.css, Save as type: All files *.*, copy in the above code, change the parameters as desired. Double-click toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true in Settings/General/Config. editor, restart TB.

Online css generator

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Woah cowboy, I'm not a programmer, just a regular user. Your suggestion went so far over my head that even with a cloudless sky I couldn't see it. ...but thanks for trying to help.

Modified by Gably