diff --git a/apps/openmw/mwgui/dialogue.cpp b/apps/openmw/mwgui/dialogue.cpp
index 56f69eb906..ba40fa92e1 100644
--- a/apps/openmw/mwgui/dialogue.cpp
+++ b/apps/openmw/mwgui/dialogue.cpp
@@ -794,18 +794,29 @@ namespace MWGui
         if (!Settings::gui().mColorTopicEnable)
             return;
 
-        const MyGUI::Colour& specialColour = Settings::gui().mColorTopicSpecific;
-        const MyGUI::Colour& oldColour = Settings::gui().mColorTopicExhausted;
+        std::string specificSkin = "MW_ListLine_Specific";
+        std::string exhaustedSkin = "MW_ListLine_Exhausted";
 
         for (const std::string& keyword : mKeywords)
         {
             int flag = MWBase::Environment::get().getDialogueManager()->getTopicFlag(ESM::RefId::stringRefId(keyword));
             MyGUI::Button* button = mTopicsList->getItemWidget(keyword);
+            const auto holdCaption = button->getCaption();
 
             if (flag & MWBase::DialogueManager::TopicType::Specific)
-                button->getSubWidgetText()->setTextColour(specialColour);
+            {
+                button->changeWidgetSkin(specificSkin);
+                button->setCaption(holdCaption);
+                int height = button->getTextSize().height;
+                button->setSize(MyGUI::IntSize(button->getSize().width, height));
+            }
             else if (flag & MWBase::DialogueManager::TopicType::Exhausted)
-                button->getSubWidgetText()->setTextColour(oldColour);
+            {
+                button->changeWidgetSkin(exhaustedSkin);
+                button->setCaption(holdCaption);
+                int height = button->getTextSize().height;
+                button->setSize(MyGUI::IntSize(button->getSize().width, height));
+            }
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/files/data/mygui/openmw_list.skin.xml b/files/data/mygui/openmw_list.skin.xml
index 75f4b9e850..877c827833 100644
--- a/files/data/mygui/openmw_list.skin.xml
+++ b/files/data/mygui/openmw_list.skin.xml
@@ -124,6 +124,28 @@
         </BasisSkin>
     </Resource>
 
+    <Resource type="ResourceSkin" name="MW_ListLine_Specific" size="5 5">
+        <Property key="FontName" value="Default"/>
+        <Property key="TextAlign" value="Left VCenter"/>
+        
+        <BasisSkin type="SimpleText" offset="2 0 1 5" align="Stretch">
+            <State name="normal" colour="#{fontcolour=link}"/>
+            <State name="highlighted" colour="#{fontcolour=link_over}"/>
+            <State name="pushed" colour="#{fontcolour=link_pressed}"/>
+        </BasisSkin>
+    </Resource>
+
+    <Resource type="ResourceSkin" name="MW_ListLine_Exhausted" size="5 5">
+        <Property key="FontName" value="Default"/>
+        <Property key="TextAlign" value="Left VCenter"/>
+        
+        <BasisSkin type="SimpleText" offset="2 0 1 5" align="Stretch">
+            <State name="normal" colour="#525252"/>
+            <State name="highlighted" colour="#666666"/>
+            <State name="pushed" colour="#3D3D3D"/>
+        </BasisSkin>
+    </Resource>
+
     <Resource type="ResourceLayout" name="MW_List" size="516 516" align="Left Top">
         <Widget type="Widget" position="0 0 516 516" name="Root">
             <Property key="NeedKey" value="true"/>