Change Icon Label Text Color

So, I wanted to change the Finder Window background color to black. But when I do so, the text for the labels of the icons become un-readable. See picture.
So I wanted to change the Label Text to white or some other lighter color. I'm surprised Mac OS X did not do it automatically. How do I change it?

AFAIK, you can't. All I can suggest is use one of Apple's Desktop pictures and be done with it.

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i can change like this but i am setting id's and want to reach via id.
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thank you, have a good day.

First off, if you are already using a Spark Group, I would suggest you use a Spark Label instead of an MX Label. If you want to reference the Labels from the group, loop through the group's elements and check the if the element id matches the Label you want to assign text to.
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I have some problem to change the label text in the prerender method.
I put a label on the form and set the text value to "Customer" on the text properities , and I would like to change the lable text to "Supplier" in the prerender method, I found some strange behaviour.
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This is a tough one to explain. Here is one explanation from the Delving Into Components tutorial:
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Hi,
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I not read label text color

Dear Support,
I am legally-blind and deaf, I bought ipad3 last month, I setup enabled White & Black and Triple-click is Black/White, I make and save solid black.jpg and solid white.jpg in ipad3, click wallpaper done... start Lock see black (good) then home, i see icon with white text and black background, good, I click setting, mail, message are white background, I can't read I press triple-click switch black, I see it when finish press Home back white background, I press triple-click back black, I am not happy lot of triple-click, I am worries button will be broke soon.. but I got idea change white.jpg, switch to black background, i press lock good, then home is bad, black background is ok but I not read white text on icon, it is blank, I press seeting, mail, message are good no need triple-click but I need how fix change color on label text label ?
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I'm sorry, but I think that you will have to take a chance on the triple clicks. The iPad does come with a one year warranty and Apple has built the Accessibility feature into the iPad knowing that the triple click will be used by people such as yourself. I would not hesitate to use the feature.

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Hello,
I'm trying to follow along with a video at Lynda.com on AI CS6.
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How to change the links text color?

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Ok Looking to do this manually I don't see all that you suggest I need to see.
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font-variant: normal;
font-weight: normal;
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margin-left: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
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font-variant: normal;
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margin-right: 0px;
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Mark,
I have a solution for you.
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Remember to mark as helpful or solved.
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Was working with SPRY tabs and the client would like the font color to change to white on roll over and select.
Is this possible through simply adding a single line of code to the css file of the SPRY file under
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site is ... http://ebnerproductions.com/index22.html
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@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryTabbedPanels.css - version 0.4 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6.1 */
/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
/* Horizontal Tabbed Panels
* The default style for a TabbedPanels widget places all tab buttons
* (left aligned) above the content panel.
/* This is the selector for the main TabbedPanels container. For our
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* If you want to constrain the width of the TabbedPanels widget, set a
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* expands horizontally to fill up available space.
* The name of the class ("TabbedPanels") used in this selector is not
* necessary to make the widget function. You can use any class name you
* want to style the TabbedPanels container.
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    padding: 0px;
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* The name of the class ("TabbedPanelsTabGroup") used in this selector is not
* necessary to make the widget function. You can use any class name you
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* border that has a color that matches the top border of the current content
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* The name of the class ("TabbedPanelsTab") used in this selector is not
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    outline:none;
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* container after the user has clicked on it to activate a content panel.
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* the widget.
* As mentioned above, for our default style, tab buttons are positioned
* 1 pixel down from where it would normally render. When the tab button is
* selected, we change its bottom border to match the background color of the
* content panel so that it looks like the tab is part of the content panel.
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    height: 41px;
    width: 158px;
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    font: Archer-Pro-Medium;
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* surround the content.
* The name of the class ("TabbedPanelsContentGroup") used in this selector is
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.TabbedPanelsContentGroup {
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* The name of the class ("TabbedPanelsContent") used in this selector is
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.TabbedPanelsContent {
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* TabbedPanels widget renders with its tab buttons along the left side of
* the currently active content panel.
* With the rules defined below, the only change that will have to be made
* to switch a horizontal tabbed panels widget to a vertical tabbed panels
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    border-left: none;
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* border for the tab. The tab button will get its left and right border from
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.VTabbedPanels .TabbedPanelsContentGroup {
    clear: none;
    float: left;
    padding: 0px;
    width: 30em;
    height: 20em;
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I got this problem while creating a chart in Crystal Report, hope someone can help me
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http://www.sap.com/australia/solutions/sap-business-objects/sme/freetrials/previous-versions/index.epx
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