TextEdit Default Font/Background Color

I'm hoping to set TextEdit to have all new plain text documents open with a specific font and background color. When I make changes in the New Document tab of the application's preferences, clicking the "Change…" button by "Plain text font" allows me to set the display font, but any choices I make regarding colors seem to be completely ineffectual. I could not find anything in other threads on the forum that would yield a solution. Any advice?

Can't be done. TextEdit will let you apply such changes while you have a plain text document open, even though it shouldn't. Save the file, close and reopen it, and you'll see anything you've done is gone and will display again as exactly what the file is; plain text.
Even using rich text as your default document type, you can pick a particular font to use as the default, but you can't set a color. The preferences will also let you set a font as the default for plain text, but only you will see the files that way since the font info is not written into the document. Anyone who receives your plain text files will see the font as whatever their default is.

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