Change Emacs syntax highlighting colors

Question

I\'m running Emacs, editing files in C++ mode and PHP mode. I love syntax highlighting as a concept, but the default colors are a travesty. I can barely read some of them: w

Answer 1

I find it easiest to use color-theme for this sort of thing.

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ColorThemes

But if you don't want to do that, put the cursor over the offending text, hit M-x customize-face. It should default to the face that the cursor is over.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Specific-Customization.html