How do I change the highlight in Preview "search" function?

I find Preview is a great app for reading PDF documents, I prefer it to Adobe Acrobat most of the time. It also has a useful and fast Search, but .... the highlighting of found Search items in the document is USELESS!!! It is pale grey, which - when most documents are black text on white background, and with a lot of text crammed on a page - is almost impossible to see!
I have tried Preview Preferences. I have tried System Preferences (but Preview, sadly, doesn't use SysPrefs highlight colour). How can I change the Preview highlight colour so that Search becomes a useful function instead of causing me eyestrain?

Thank you for the quick reply, however, if I understand correctly your link is helpful for Character Fill Color, not highlights.
Please find the quote below in this link:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH15379?viewlocale=en_US
"Note:   Text that you highlight by adding a color behind it (in the Format inspector) isn’t tracked in the review toolbar."

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