diff --git a/render/gemtext.go b/render/gemtext.go
index 18e537f..bb03eed 100644
--- a/render/gemtext.go
+++ b/render/gemtext.go
@@ -148,11 +148,14 @@ func (ren *GemtextRenderer) renderLine(line string) string {
 	if ren.pre {
 		if ren.ansiEnabled {
 			line = cview.TranslateANSI(line)
-			// The TranslateANSI function injects tags like [-:-:-]
-			// but this will reset the background to use the user's terminal color.
-			// These tags need to be replaced with resets that use the theme color.
-			line = strings.ReplaceAll(line, "[-:-:-]",
-				fmt.Sprintf("[%s:%s:-]", config.GetColorString("preformatted_text"), config.GetColorString("bg")),
+			// The TranslateANSI function will reset the colors when it encounters
+			// an ANSI reset code, injecting a full reset tag: [-:-:-]
+			// This uses the default foreground and background colors of the
+			// application, but in this case we want it to use the preformatted text
+			// color as the foreground, as we're still in a preformat block.
+			line = strings.ReplaceAll(
+				line, "[-:-:-]",
+				fmt.Sprintf("[%s:-:-]", config.GetColorString("preformatted_text")),
 			)
 
 			// Set color at beginning and end of line to prevent background glitches
diff --git a/render/renderer.go b/render/renderer.go
index 2aa3cac..c8f8418 100644
--- a/render/renderer.go
+++ b/render/renderer.go
@@ -3,12 +3,10 @@ package render
 import (
 	"bufio"
 	"bytes"
-	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"regexp"
 
 	"code.rocketnine.space/tslocum/cview"
-	"github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/amfora/config"
 	"github.com/spf13/viper"
 )
 
@@ -166,15 +164,6 @@ func (ren *ANSIRenderer) handler() {
 
 			// Shouldn't error because everything it writes to are all bytes.Buffer
 			ren.ansiWriter.Write(line) //nolint:errcheck
-
-			// The ANSIWriter injects tags like [-:-:-]
-			// but this will reset the background to use the user's terminal color.
-			// These tags need to be replaced with resets that use the theme color.
-			line = bytes.ReplaceAll(
-				ren.buf.Bytes(),
-				[]byte("[-:-:-]"),
-				[]byte(fmt.Sprintf("[-:%s:-]", config.GetColorString("bg"))),
-			)
 		}
 
 		ren.readIn.Write(line) //nolint:errcheck