diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 6d3932cb7b1..cdc832c08b8 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-10-15  Miles Bader  <miles@gnu.org>
+
+	* font-lock.el (font-lock-comment-face): Change dark-background,
+	color, non-tty, default to `chocolate1'.
+
 2000-10-13  John Wiegley  <johnw@gnu.org>
 
 	* eshell/esh-util.el (require): Added a missing `require' form,
diff --git a/lisp/font-lock.el b/lisp/font-lock.el
index 463c94e2127..54dfe17de5a 100644
--- a/lisp/font-lock.el
+++ b/lisp/font-lock.el
@@ -1859,7 +1859,7 @@ Sets various variables using `font-lock-defaults' (or, if nil, using
     (((class grayscale) (background dark))
      (:foreground "LightGray" :bold t :italic t))
     (((class color) (background light)) (:foreground "Firebrick"))
-    (((class color) (background dark)) (:foreground "OrangeRed"))
+    (((class color) (background dark)) (:foreground "chocolate1"))
     (t (:bold t :italic t)))
   "Font Lock mode face used to highlight comments."
   :group 'font-lock-highlighting-faces)