[lowboy]

It's easy on my eyes on my monitors. And it's #555 on #fafbfc, hardly "slightly lighter". For that font size/weight I would have gone #333/444 but it's pretty close.

[dminor]

There's also a white text-shadow, so plenty of contrast for my eyes.

[cabalamat]

The text is not too bad. I was thinking more of the code examples such as thnis one: http://i.imgur.com/YBgOIpv.png