You may need to customize the org-hide face.

See the section "Hiding Leading Stars" at
http://orgmode.org/manual/Clean-view.html

Josiah


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Chris Henderson <henders254@gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm trying to setup Org indent mode for cleaner view but the preceding
> starts show up dimmed in grey color. How do I make them totally invisible?
>
> I've put this at the top of the .emacs:
>
> (setq org-startup-indented t)
> (setq org-indent-mode t)
>
> and running emacs version 24.3.1 and org version 8.2.5 from the
> command-line.
>
>