Greg Low lightens things up a bit:
As soon as I started working with a recent version of SSMS, I realized that I didn’t like how heavy the grid lines were in the output:
I really wanted the data to be the focus, not the lines. They seemed much darker than on the previous versions. Note that this is a personal preference. I can imagine some people preferring them as they now are. Fortunately, though, you can now change the color of the lines.
Click through to see how.