I'd take any good mix of colors as an alternative. I played around with the whole thing for about 15 minutes before I decided I was wasting my time, I can't match colors. I tried to make a nice purple for my girlfriend, who is a purple freak. But instead I got invited to be on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Yikes!
Anybody can play, here's a color chart:
http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/ Pick two colors that look nice with black text. If you want, give me a third color for the border. Post 'em here. I'll add anything that tops the magenta--I'll add practically anything.
I hate to pick colors for everyone, can't win as you've seen.
If you can't make them user selectable, how about FFFFCC & CCFFCC ? Don't know about borders, do we need 'em?