Question

I have a program that when started disables fields so that the user cant change parameters. However the opacity changes so much that the writing then is not as clear as I would like. I set the font to Bold but this does not help so much and it also looks out of place when not disabled.

Answer 1

If you really referring to the JTextComponents, then I guess what you need is setDisabledTextColor(…), something like this :

tarea = new JTextArea(10, 10);
tarea.setText("Hello World!");
tarea.setEnabled(false);
tarea.setDisabledTextColor(Color.BLACK);