How do I make the IDE more readable?
Yes I can increase the font size in the editor, but the commented sections of sketches are almost unreadable, way to light. And the colors of the syntax are also very poor. How can I change ALL the text to be BLACK. Not all programmers have the good eyes of a 20 year-old. Better contrast in the IDE would be a great help too.
Same goes for this webpage.
You can adjust pretty much any of the colors in the IDE to your preference. Unfortunately it's a bit more complicated than it needs to be. I wrote an Arduino test sketch/library that makes it easy to test your theme configuration:
The documentation on that page explains what each of the theme configuration properties does.
Remember that you will need to redo all your modifications every time you update to a new version of the Arduino IDE so you will want to save the modified files somewhere before using the installer to update, otherwise they will be overwritten by the stock files.
Minor aside - I used to be really pissed at this website over the awful low contrast colors they picked and how I could never read it, and I sent some emails to them, and I'm sure they thought I was a total zero.
Turns out I had the contrast on my monitor adjusted wrong, and had since I bought the display. I felt pretty dumb that day.