diff --git a/Tusker/Views/ContentTextView.swift b/Tusker/Views/ContentTextView.swift
index bae5d7d9f0..e77198c548 100644
--- a/Tusker/Views/ContentTextView.swift
+++ b/Tusker/Views/ContentTextView.swift
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ class ContentTextView: LinkTextView {
     var navigationDelegate: TuskerNavigationDelegate?
     
     var defaultFont: UIFont = .systemFont(ofSize: 17)
+    var defaultColor: UIColor = .label
     
     override func awakeFromNib() {
         super.awakeFromNib()
@@ -117,9 +118,9 @@ class ContentTextView: LinkTextView {
             } else {
                 text = node.text()
             }
-            return NSAttributedString(string: text, attributes: [.font: defaultFont])
+            return NSAttributedString(string: text, attributes: [.font: defaultFont, .foregroundColor: defaultColor])
         case let node as Element:
-            let attributed = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "", attributes: [.font: defaultFont])
+            let attributed = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "", attributes: [.font: defaultFont, .foregroundColor: defaultColor])
             for child in node.getChildNodes() {
                 attributed.append(attributedTextForHTMLNode(child, usePreformattedText: usePreformattedText || node.tagName() == "pre"))
             }