Ok, barely have scratched the surface here, but just changing the X3 them to Dark Side has given me some much needed contrasts. I did import the duckbar color set into X3 and fooled around a bit and now I see why people have raved about it since X1 came out.
I'm grateful that X3 brought back many of the color options and I'm content, but I'm sick of all the washed out grey, and you can almost still see it coming through even bright colors. I still miss my 8.5 colors and this is cool.