black font in conky

[hail_santa]

Hi, I was wondering how to set black fonts in conky, I'm pretty new to the software. This is my .conkyrc. I cobbled it together from a few different sources:

    background yes
    use_xft yes
    xftfont HandelGotD:size=9
    xftalpha 0.5
    update_interval 4.0
    total_run_times 0
    own_window yes
    own_window_type normal
    own_window_transparent yes
    own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
    double_buffer yes
    minimum_size 200 5
    maximum_width 220
    draw_shades no
    draw_outline no
    draw_borders no
    draw_graph_borders no
    default_color black
    default_shade_color black
    default_outline_color black
    alignment top_right
    gap_x 12
    gap_y 48
    no_buffers yes
    uppercase no
    cpu_avg_samples 2
    override_utf8_locale no

    TEXT
    $sysname $kernel on $machine

    Uptime $alignr $uptime
    Load $alignr $loadavg

    ${font Trebuchet MS:size=10}${time %H:%M}${font}${alignr}${time %a %d %b %Y}

    $processes processes ($running_processes running)

    CPU $alignr ${cpu cpu0}%
    ${cpubar cpu0}

    MEM $alignc $mem / $memmax $alignr $memperc%
    $membar

    / $alignc ${fs_used /} / ${fs_size /} $alignr ${fs_free_perc /}%
    ${fs_bar /}

    /home $alignc ${fs_used /home} / ${fs_size /home} $alignr ${fs_free_perc /home}%
    ${fs_bar /home}

    swap $alignc $swap / $swapmax $alignr $swapperc%
    ${swapbar}

    NAME $alignr PID    CPU
    ${top name 1} $alignr ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1}
    ${top name 2} $alignr ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2}
    ${top name 3} $alignr ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3}
    ${top name 4} $alignr ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4}
    ${top name 5} $alignr ${top pid 5} ${top cpu 5}
    ${top name 6} $alignr ${top pid 6} ${top cpu 6}
    ${top name 7} $alignr ${top pid 7} ${top cpu 7}
    ${top name 8} $alignr ${top pid 8} ${top cpu 8}

Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

[MikeTbob]

Check this tutorial, it has references to changing font colors if you scroll down far enough.
Create a custum conky setup Linux Owns
We also had a nice Conky thread going here.
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/cof...reenshots.html
Enjoy and good Luck.

[hail_santa]

The how to link was very informative. I played around until I realized all I had to do was redefine the xftalpha (4th line down) to 1.0 from 0.5... And now I can read the output against my black and white wallpaper! Thanks a lot