iCal 5.0 - washed out dates unreadable

The text in Lion iCal 5.0, mainly 'Month' and 'Year' views is so washed-out grey that I can't read it. As a partially sighted Mac user I usually find a little Zoom is all that is necessary, but this text is just too weak-washedout-gray for that to help.

How do I make the date text black - or at least bold? I know I could use Universal Access to set things system wide, but it is just the ugly new-and-improved iCal that is causing me difficulties.

Getting rid of the dirty brown top to the window would also improve the look of the app.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7), 2011 27in i7 3.4GHz

Posted on Jul 23, 2011 3:08 AM

64 replies

Jul 12, 2012 4:58 PM in response to Rob Hague

It is crap like this that I have nooooo time for that is driving me to the big G for apps and phone... nrk

mrzip

Level 1

0 points

Jul 27, 2012 11:08 AM in response to Rob Hague

Has the i Cal 5.0 unreadable washed out dates design flaw been resolved in the OS X Mountain Lion upgrade or is Apple passing along the same problem to a new operating system.

ik8sqi2

Level 1

45 points

Jul 27, 2012 12:11 PM in response to mrzip

The fonts are much darker in Mountain Lion. I'd say iCal is usable again finally.

Mar 2, 2014 1:05 PM in response to John Galloway

Thanks for taking time to respond. I'm not ready to update to 10.9.2 until the bugs are worked out.

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iCal 5.0 - washed out dates unreadable