ICal All Washed Out

I don't comprehend this trend at Apple to make everything monotone. Mavericks is worse than ever. The older consumers, the ones with the money who buy your expensive products, have the most have great difficulty reading tiny writing esconced in undefined columns with everything in light gray and white & and that tedious, ancient Arial font.  Not only is it difficult to distinguish lines of text, but it's ugly and boring. I like pretty and colorful, I guess because I'm... a human! It's a computer, why can't we have both? Firefox Browser and myYahoo allow the user to design their own interfaces and are extremely popular because of this. My browser looks like a sunny orchard.  I sit at my computer either working or playing 10 hours a day.  Mavericks looks like a graveyard.
Is there a way to convert iCal back to something with some color in it?

patfromdanbury wrote:
And, how can I increase the font size for the entire calendar?
You can't. Busycal, which is sort of 'iCal Pro' will let you do both things and offers a number of facilities over iCal, including not looking like a scruffy leather calendar.

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