Yeah that is a serious mouthful.  But that is what this plugin does, it allows you to specify a colour value with which to fade your text from back-ground to fore-ground.

I myself don't use this, but a buddy anatman from the WordPress irc Channel does, and wanted to be able to specify the color to begin the fade with on each page.  So I threw together this quick plugin.

I won't go into how you set up all the various bits and pieces to get this to work for you, I would suggest looking here for that.  I am simply giving you a little help with the script.  Find the file in the usual place.