diff --git a/data/themes/default/theme_ext.edc b/data/themes/default/theme_ext.edc
index 3323052..40cd45f 100644
--- a/data/themes/default/theme_ext.edc
+++ b/data/themes/default/theme_ext.edc
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 styles
   {
      style { name: "entry_linenumber_style";
-        base: "font="FN" font_size=11 color=#a0a0a0 text_class=entry shadow_color=#00000080 style=shadow,bottom";
+        base: "font="FN" font_size=11 color=#656565 text_class=entry shadow_color=#00000080 style=shadow,bottom";
         tag:  "em" "+ font_style=Oblique";
         tag:  "link" "+ color=#800 underline=on underline_color=#8008";
         tag:  "hilight" "+ font_weight=Bold";
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ styles
         tag:  "preedit_sel" "+ backing=on backing_color=#000 color=#FFFFFF";
      }
      style { name: "entry_edit_style";
-        base: "font="FN" font_size=11 color=#ffffff text_class=entry shadow_color=#00000080 style=shadow,bottom";
+        base: "font="FN" font_size=11 color=#d4d4d4 text_class=entry shadow_color=#00000080 style=shadow,bottom";
         tag:  "em" "+ font_style=Oblique";
         tag:  "link" "+ color=#800 underline=on underline_color=#8008";
         tag:  "hilight" "+ font_weight=Bold";
diff --git a/src/bin/syntax_color.c b/src/bin/syntax_color.c
index 6a7f89a..762c66c 100644
--- a/src/bin/syntax_color.c
+++ b/src/bin/syntax_color.c
@@ -23,12 +23,12 @@ color_init(Eina_Strbuf *strbuf)
    color_data *cd = malloc(sizeof(color_data));
    cd->strbuf = strbuf;
 
-   cd->cols[0] = eina_stringshare_add("424242");
-   cd->cols[1] = eina_stringshare_add("A000A0");
-   cd->cols[2] = eina_stringshare_add("0000A0");
-   cd->cols[3] = eina_stringshare_add("969600");
-   cd->cols[4] = eina_stringshare_add("009600");
-   cd->cols[5] = eina_stringshare_add("00C0C0");
+   cd->cols[0] = eina_stringshare_add("656565");
+   cd->cols[1] = eina_stringshare_add("2070D0");
+   cd->cols[2] = eina_stringshare_add("72AAD4");
+   cd->cols[3] = eina_stringshare_add("D47F00");
+   cd->cols[4] = eina_stringshare_add("00B000");
+   cd->cols[5] = eina_stringshare_add("D42A2A");
 
    return cd;
 }