Well, an easy solution to that, as I said, is to put boxes in your WPS of either faded or light colors, and put your text on top of the lighter clear parts.
You're the one who's making a theme that's hard to read, so it's your choice that does it, not the absence or presence of features.
As well, it's open source, so you're welcome to address the problems I've mentioned, and release a patch adding grayscale or color font support.