diff --git a/lib/riemann/dash/public/views/flot.js b/lib/riemann/dash/public/views/flot.js
index c3a0953..cd43a95 100644
--- a/lib/riemann/dash/public/views/flot.js
+++ b/lib/riemann/dash/public/views/flot.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 (function() {
-    // Reify a timeseries view from JSON 
+    // Reify a timeseries view from JSON
     var FlotView = function(json) {
       // Extract state from JSON
       view.View.call(this, json);
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
       this.stackMode = json.stackMode || 'false';
       this.lineWidth = json.lineWidth || 1;
       this.timeRange = (json.timeRange * 1000) || 300000;
-      
+
       this.font = {
         size: 11,
         lineheight: 13,
@@ -42,10 +42,10 @@
       // Time series state
       this.series = {};
       this.data = [];
-    
+
       if (!json.virtual) {
         this.reflow();
-        
+
         // Initialize graph
         this.setupGraph(new Date());
 
@@ -89,15 +89,14 @@
         },
         grid: {
           borderWidth: 1,
-          borderColor: "#aaa",
-          color: "#444",
-          backgroundColor: '#fff'
+          borderColor: "#073642",
+          color: "#586e75",
         },
         yaxis: {
           font: this.font,
           min: this.min,
           max: this.max
-        }, 
+        },
         xaxis: {
           font: this.font,
           mode: "time",
@@ -121,7 +120,7 @@
       this.graph.draw();
     }
 
-    // Re-order the data list and series index to be in sorted order by label. 
+    // Re-order the data list and series index to be in sorted order by label.
     FlotView.prototype.resortSeries = function() {
       // Shorten labels
       var hostPrefix = strings.commonPrefix(_.pluck(this.data, 'riemannHost'));
@@ -191,14 +190,14 @@
       }
 
       var series = this.data[this.series[key]].data;
-      
+
       // Add event to series
       if (event.state === "expired") {
         series.push(null);
       } else if (event.metric !== undefined) {
         series.push([event.time, event.metric]);
       }
-      
+
       this.setGraphData();
     };
 
@@ -281,7 +280,7 @@
       return editTemplate(this);
     };
 
-    // Redraws graph 
+    // Redraws graph
     FlotView.prototype.refresh = function() {
       this.graph.setupGrid();
       this.graph.draw();