Need to change the link font color in Notes

After using a fairly decent Notes app for several years, I decided to ditch it after a recent update managed to delete a bunch of notes as well as wrongly arbitrarily reassign them to various unrelated folders. The dev hasn't seen fit to help. So I decided to move everything into Apple's Notes since it had some review praise and it works between MacOS and iOS.


All started well with several hundred copied over until today when I copied a number that included links. Oh crap! I simply cannot read the links due to the extremely insensitive use of a very low contrast color - yellow perhaps? Now understand that I have decent vision - 20/20 corrected from a slight farsightedness and I don't have color blindness but trying to read the characters in a link in Notes is pure torture. Sorry for the hyperbole but it's true.


I've increased the display's contrast using the Accessibility System Pref, which really doesn't help, and I can't find anything else that alleviate the problem.


Is there any way to change this? I'm familiar with the Terminal so if there is a means to do this via Terminal, that would be a godsend.


We all seem to dislike the legacy blue or purple link colors but in most cases we've been able to alter them. However, in my worst nightmares I can't imagine what doofus at Apple decided that no contrast is the way to show a link. Not to mention the visually-impaired QA group that went ahead and signed off on this.


thanks!


-Tod


Edit: I also opened the Format > Font > Show Fonts, then highlighted a link. The text color icon at the top of the fonts table changed to mimic the yellow color of the link. Tried to change it there with no luck. Whose bright idea was it to limit user choices, especially those that are hard-wired into the OS?

Mac mini, OS X El Capitan (10.11), 10GB SDRAM 740 GB fusion drive

Posted on Apr 22, 2016 3:28 PM

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