diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 7de9ba7..b96c568 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ Known issues:
 
 ## bunyan 1.0.1 (not yet released)
 
-(nothing yet)
+- [issue #160] Stop using ANSI 'grey' in `bunyan` CLI output, because of the
+  problems that causes with Solarized Dark themes (see
+  <https://github.com/altercation/solarized/issues/220>).
 
 
 ## bunyan 1.0.0
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9959ae7..5ebed44 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ facilities in node 0.12 to which bunyan can switch.
 - [`bunyan` CLI](#cli-usage) for pretty-printing and filtering of Bunyan logs
 - simple include of log call source location (file, line, function) with
   [`src: true`](#src)
-- light-weight specialization of Logger instances with [`log.child`](#logchild)
+- lightweight specialization of Logger instances with [`log.child`](#logchild)
 - custom rendering of logged objects with ["serializers"](#serializers)
 - [Runtime log snooping via DTrace support](#dtrace-support)
 
diff --git a/bin/bunyan b/bin/bunyan
index 73dc2d6..8b27a30 100755
--- a/bin/bunyan
+++ b/bin/bunyan
@@ -590,8 +590,10 @@ function isInteger(s) {
 
 // http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#graphics
 // Suggested colors (some are unreadable in common cases):
-// - Good: cyan, yellow (limited use), grey, bold, green, magenta, red
-// - Bad: blue (not visible on cmd.exe)
+// - Good: cyan, yellow (limited use), bold, green, magenta, red
+// - Bad: blue (not visible on cmd.exe), grey (same color as background on
+//   Solarized Dark theme from <https://github.com/altercation/solarized>, see
+//   issue #160)
 var colors = {
     'bold' : [1, 22],
     'italic' : [3, 23],
@@ -746,8 +748,8 @@ function emitRecord(rec, line, opts, stylize) {
         var level = (upperPaddedNameFromLevel[rec.level] || 'LVL' + rec.level);
         if (opts.color) {
             var colorFromLevel = {
-                10: 'grey',     // TRACE
-                20: 'grey',     // DEBUG
+                10: 'white',    // TRACE
+                20: 'yellow',   // DEBUG
                 30: 'cyan',     // INFO
                 40: 'magenta',  // WARN
                 50: 'red',      // ERROR
@@ -958,9 +960,9 @@ function emitRecord(rec, line, opts, stylize) {
         }
 
         extras = stylize(
-            (extras.length ? ' (' + extras.join(', ') + ')' : ''), 'grey');
+            (extras.length ? ' (' + extras.join(', ') + ')' : ''), 'XXX');
         details = stylize(
-            (details.length ? details.join('\n    --\n') + '\n' : ''), 'grey');
+            (details.length ? details.join('\n    --\n') + '\n' : ''), 'XXX');
         if (!short)
             emit(format('%s %s: %s on %s%s:%s%s\n%s',
                 time,
diff --git a/tools/colors.log b/tools/colors.log
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..52e35bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/colors.log
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# A log file to use to show bunyan colors
+{"name":"colors","hostname":"grape.local","pid":52694,"level":10,"msg":"this is the msg","time":"2014-08-10T07:02:40.552Z","src":{"file":"/Users/trentm/tm/node-bunyan/examples/src.js","line":8},"v":0}
+{"name":"colors","hostname":"grape.local","pid":52694,"level":20,"msg":"this is the msg","time":"2014-08-10T07:02:40.550Z","v":0}
+{"name":"colors","hostname":"grape.local","pid":52694,"level":30,"msg":"this is the msg","time":"2014-08-10T07:02:40.551Z","v":0}
+{"name":"colors","hostname":"grape.local","pid":52694,"level":40,"msg":"this is the msg","time":"2014-08-10T07:02:40.551Z","v":0}
+{"name":"colors","hostname":"grape.local","pid":52694,"level":50,"msg":"this is the msg","time":"2014-08-10T07:02:40.551Z","v":0}
+{"name":"colors","hostname":"grape.local","pid":52694,"agent":"a6359483-80b7-4a71-bb12-84cab83816b3","level":30,"req_id":"baf281a7-e4f3-4e6c-80d3-8154b5b220d0","req":{"method":"HEAD","url":"/agentprobes","headers":{"accept":"application/json","content-type":"application/json","host":"localhost","connection":"close"},"httpVersion":"1.1","trailers":{},"version":"*"},"res":{"statusCode":200,"headers":{"content-md5":"11FxOYiYfpMxmANj4kGJzg==","access-control-allow-origin":"*","access-control-allow-headers":"Accept, Accept-Version, Content-Length, Content-MD5, Content-Type, Date, X-Api-Version","access-control-allow-methods":"HEAD","access-control-expose-headers":"X-Api-Version, X-Request-Id, X-Response-Time","connection":"close","date":"Fri, 14 Dec 2012 01:11:04 GMT","server":"Amon Relay/1.0.0","x-request-id":"baf281a7-e4f3-4e6c-80d3-8154b5b220d0","x-response-time":0},"trailer":false},"route":{"name":"HeadAgentProbes","version":false},"latency":0,"secure":false,"_audit":true,"msg":"HeadAgentProbes handled: 200","time":"2012-12-14T01:11:04.218Z","v":0}
+{"name":"colors","hostname":"grape.local","pid":52694,"level":60,"msg":"this is the msg","time":"2014-08-10T07:02:40.551Z","v":0}