diff --git a/www/conservancy/static/css/conservancy.css b/www/conservancy/static/css/conservancy.css
index 356979aa24aaf951784d4932e98e5a8dfeee2138..e68656d41b8c9aef579d4bb5ab8a05dda307642c 100644
--- a/www/conservancy/static/css/conservancy.css
+++ b/www/conservancy/static/css/conservancy.css
@@ -13,8 +13,6 @@ body {
 /*  font-family: "Lucida Grande",Verdana,Lucida,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; */
   font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", "Verdana", "FreeSans", sans-serif;
   font-size: 95%;
-  background-color: #0000;
-  color: #ffff;
 }
 
 a { text-decoration: none; color: #557733; }