diff --git a/src/plugins/texteditor/colorscheme.h b/src/plugins/texteditor/colorscheme.h
index bc9d340b688..ef7e59e87f5 100644
--- a/src/plugins/texteditor/colorscheme.h
+++ b/src/plugins/texteditor/colorscheme.h
@@ -46,10 +46,6 @@ public:
     Format() = default;
     Format(const QColor &foreground, const QColor &background);
 
-    static Format createMixinFormat() {
-        return Format(QColor(), QColor());
-    }
-
     QColor foreground() const { return m_foreground; }
     void setForeground(const QColor &foreground);
 
@@ -86,8 +82,8 @@ public:
     bool fromString(const QString &str);
 
 private:
-    QColor m_foreground = Qt::black;
-    QColor m_background = Qt::white;
+    QColor m_foreground;
+    QColor m_background;
     QColor m_underlineColor;
     double m_relativeForegroundSaturation = 0.0;
     double m_relativeForegroundLightness = 0.0;
diff --git a/src/plugins/texteditor/texteditorsettings.cpp b/src/plugins/texteditor/texteditorsettings.cpp
index a4957f1780a..c6b1710c7c9 100644
--- a/src/plugins/texteditor/texteditorsettings.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/texteditor/texteditorsettings.cpp
@@ -92,8 +92,10 @@ TextEditorSettings::TextEditorSettings()
     // Add font preference page
     FormatDescriptions formatDescr;
     formatDescr.reserve(C_LAST_STYLE_SENTINEL);
-    formatDescr.emplace_back(C_TEXT, tr("Text"), tr("Generic text and punctuation tokens.\n"
-                                                    "Applied to text that matched no other rule."));
+    formatDescr.emplace_back(C_TEXT, tr("Text"),
+                             tr("Generic text and punctuation tokens.\n"
+                                                    "Applied to text that matched no other rule."),
+                             Format{QColor{}, Qt::white});
 
     // Special categories
     const QPalette p = QApplication::palette();
@@ -168,7 +170,7 @@ TextEditorSettings::TextEditorSettings()
     functionFormat.setForeground(QColor(0, 103, 124));
     formatDescr.emplace_back(C_FUNCTION, tr("Function"), tr("Name of a function."),
                              functionFormat);
-    Format declarationFormat = Format::createMixinFormat();
+    Format declarationFormat;
     declarationFormat.setBold(true);
     formatDescr.emplace_back(C_DECLARATION,
                              tr("Function Declaration"),
@@ -178,7 +180,6 @@ TextEditorSettings::TextEditorSettings()
     formatDescr.emplace_back(C_FUNCTION_DEFINITION,
                              tr("Function Definition"),
                              tr("Name of function at its definition."),
-                             Format::createMixinFormat(),
                              FormatDescription::ShowAllControls);
     Format virtualFunctionFormat(functionFormat);
     virtualFunctionFormat.setItalic(true);
@@ -242,7 +243,6 @@ TextEditorSettings::TextEditorSettings()
     formatDescr.emplace_back(C_OPERATOR, tr("Operator"),
                              tr("Non user-defined language operators.\n"
                                 "To style user-defined operators, use Overloaded Operator."),
-                             Format::createMixinFormat(),
                              FormatDescription::ShowAllControls);
     formatDescr.emplace_back(C_OVERLOADED_OPERATOR,
                              tr("Overloaded Operators"),
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ TextEditorSettings::TextEditorSettings()
                              QColor(255, 190, 0),
                              QTextCharFormat::DotLine,
                              FormatDescription::ShowAllControls);
-    Format outputArgumentFormat = Format::createMixinFormat();
+    Format outputArgumentFormat;
     outputArgumentFormat.setItalic(true);
     formatDescr.emplace_back(C_OUTPUT_ARGUMENT,
                              tr("Output Argument"),