If you have an extension like Stylus installed, you can quickly write a new rule. This might also change the saturation of other elements, but I'd be surprised

If you have an extension like Stylus installed, you can quickly write a new rule. This might also change the saturation of other elements, but I'd be surprised if you wouldn't consider that a benefit. The desaturation is just a collection of rules like the following: .c88, .c88 a:link, .c88 a:visited { color: #888888; } If you want to make it darker you could just use the following in a Stylus rule for news.ycombinator.com: .c5a, .c5a a:link, .c5a a:visited, .c73, .c73 a:link, .c73 a:visited, .c82, .c82 a:link, .c82 a:visited, .c88, .c88 a:link, .c88 a:visited, .c9c, .c9c a:link, .c9c a:visited, .cae, .cae a:link, .cae a:visited, .cbe, .cbe a:link, .cbe a:visited, .cce, .cce a:link, .cce a:visited, .cdd, .cdd a:link, .cdd a:visited { color: #000000 !important; }