DVD Studio Pro- Button Font too light

Trying to put some text under buttons in a menu.  Text is controllable by font style and size, but I can't get off the blurry gray that seems to be a default.  Which is not good because I need a white Menu Background.  Tried Text under preferences, but stuck.
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Oh boy, I know that was supposed to work, and trust me I was at that panel and tried.  How I resolved the issue was - or simply didn't know before - was that I had to double click on the top horizontal panel of the color pane (not the circle).  Only with the double click did it take.  I've seen and used this wheel hundreds of times before in FCP and never had an issue.
Thanks for the response. I accessed the color area via the Preference pull down, then Text

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