Change Finder Colours and Appearance.

Change Finder Colours and Appearance.
Hi! I was just wondering if anybody knows how to change the appearance [specifically the colours of background and text] of the finder?
Either natively or through some kind of plugin or extension or tweak?
I personally am finding black-text-on-bright-white very jarring and straining on my eyes during long periods of file organization.
Through other applications, I have lately found that having neutral-coloured text on black background is VERY easy on my eyes, to read, for long periods.
I first found this out by happy-accident in adobe reader, which has the option to switch background and text colours to your preference for reading. Then I found a great google chrome extension called "Change Colors" which allows you to pick the background and text colour on every page.
I have found these to be a huge cure for eye-strain for me, for things which require me to read and concentrate on them.
If I could do this with finder too, I would be very happy.
I think there must be a solution. Even TERMINAL allows one to change colours of text+bg.
I have done some googling around, but no solution is apparent to me.
Thank you very much in advance for any help, I appreciate it.
And happy holidays, if you are lucky enough to have a holiday

Thanks Barney. I do see your point, really.
But then again, would it really be a massive coding / graphical leap to have this as an option on the finder?
While I am a simpleton / no-nothing person in terms of designing computer applications ;
I imagine it's not a video-game proportion exercise in interactive graphical engineering,
to add the option to be able to select your own colours on the finder?
I would personally have a black background with a neutral coloured green for the text.
For me, this option is a big eye-strain saver with other applications, as I mentioned above.
I'd love to see this become available with the finder, and I'm sure many other people would too.
I've seen various requests for this on the finder, and even on the Windows 7 forums regarding the windows file-explorer.

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