diff --git a/src/components/chatmessage.cpp b/src/components/chatmessage.cpp
index d884077..4b195aa 100644
--- a/src/components/chatmessage.cpp
+++ b/src/components/chatmessage.cpp
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ Gtk::Widget *ChatMessageItemContainer::CreateEmbedComponent(const EmbedData &emb
                 }
                 return false;
             });
-            static auto color = Abaddon::Get().GetSettings().LinkColor;
+            const auto color = title_label->get_style_context()->get_color(Gtk::STATE_FLAG_LINK);
             title_label->override_color(Gdk::RGBA(color));
             title_label->set_markup("<b>" + Glib::Markup::escape_text(*embed.Title) + "</b>");
         }
@@ -852,7 +852,8 @@ void ChatMessageItemContainer::HandleLinks(Gtk::TextView &tv) {
         std::string link = match.fetch(0);
         auto tag = buf->create_tag();
         m_link_tagmap[tag] = link;
-        tag->property_foreground_rgba() = Gdk::RGBA(Abaddon::Get().GetSettings().LinkColor);
+        const auto color = tv.get_style_context()->get_color(Gtk::STATE_FLAG_LINK);
+        tag->property_foreground_rgba() = color;
         tag->set_property("underline", 1); // stupid workaround for vcpkg bug (i think)
 
         const auto chars_start = g_utf8_pointer_to_offset(text.c_str(), text.c_str() + mstart);
diff --git a/src/settings.cpp b/src/settings.cpp
index c824a34..368d5bb 100644
--- a/src/settings.cpp
+++ b/src/settings.cpp
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ void SettingsManager::ReadSettings() {
     SMINT("http", "concurrent", CacheHTTPConcurrency);
     SMSTR("http", "user_agent", UserAgent);
     SMSTR("style", "expandercolor", ChannelsExpanderColor);
-    SMSTR("style", "linkcolor", LinkColor);
     SMSTR("style", "nsfwchannelcolor", NSFWChannelColor);
     SMSTR("style", "channelcolor", ChannelColor);
     SMSTR("style", "mentionbadgecolor", MentionBadgeColor);
@@ -159,7 +158,6 @@ void SettingsManager::Close() {
         SMINT("http", "concurrent", CacheHTTPConcurrency);
         SMSTR("http", "user_agent", UserAgent);
         SMSTR("style", "expandercolor", ChannelsExpanderColor);
-        SMSTR("style", "linkcolor", LinkColor);
         SMSTR("style", "nsfwchannelcolor", NSFWChannelColor);
         SMSTR("style", "channelcolor", ChannelColor);
         SMSTR("style", "mentionbadgecolor", MentionBadgeColor);
diff --git a/src/settings.hpp b/src/settings.hpp
index 037233b..67ba515 100644
--- a/src/settings.hpp
+++ b/src/settings.hpp
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ public:
 
         // [style]
         // TODO: convert to StyleProperty... or maybe not? i still cant figure out what the "correct" method is for this
-        std::string LinkColor { "rgba(40, 200, 180, 255)" };
         std::string ChannelsExpanderColor { "rgba(255, 83, 112, 255)" };
         std::string NSFWChannelColor { "#ed6666" };
         std::string ChannelColor { "#fbfbfb" };