The purple on-black color scheme has a contrast ratio of < 1.5. To meet basic design recommendations, it should at least have a ratio of 4.5.
We might in fact go for a light color scheme, our chosen shade of purple has much more contrast on say rgb(232, 232, 232) (4.9, which meets the AA recommendation).
Aside from recommendations, I personally find the purple almost unreadable on the darker shade of grey we use. Also, the colors somehow "hurt" the eye.
@mheidinger what do you think of a light-theme? Otherwise we'd definitively have to make our greys darker and the purple lighter.