I should add that Tyree's idea is what I was looking for originally
(changing the face to the text font at least fixed readability).

Ideally, instead of jumping to the footnote section, it would be
collapsible / expandable, much like headings.

Right now having a dedicated footnote section is better than having the
footnote embedded in the body of the text as a giant distracting
parenthesis. That is the worst functionality among the options here.

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:24 PM, 42 147 <aeuster@gmail.com> wrote:
Very nice.

However, I'd like to write a function that toggles the color value (without
recourse to the customize menu), since it would be useful to highlight the
footnotes from time to time.

After some tests, it is clear I also disliked the underlining.


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> wrote:

> Reading an org-file. I should note, it is the highlighting that is the
> problem, not the footnote itself. If I could somehow toggle it to the
> color of the text, that would solve my problem.

Put your cursor on the footnote.  Then do

    C-u C-x =

In the resulting buffer, toward the end, you will see something like
this.

    ,----
    | There are text properties here:
    |   face                 org-footnote
    |   font-lock-fontified  t
    |   font-lock-multiline  t
    |   fontified            t
    |   help-echo            "Footnote reference"
    |   keymap               [Show]
    |   mouse-face           highlight
    |   org-category         "test-new"
    |   org-no-flyspell      t
    `----

Click on the face property (which is `org-footnote').  Click on
"customize this face" link.  Change the face foreground color to
whatever you want.

Or

A fast way to do that would be
    M-x customize-face RET org-footnote RET

You can also try
    M-x customize-group RET org-faces RET
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