It was black on lightish grey ... when I took on that style, the first thing I did was to alter the font colour, which was originally dark grey, I think, but not very readable.

To be honest, having titivated my journal last night, and then reverted this morning, I've gone back to the titivation, because I suddenly realised my journal looked so, so sombre, and I didn't like it, whereas the lighter page looked much nicer. Consider it as having done me a favour by prompting me to make a few changes around here.