diff --git a/MVMCoreUI/TopAlert/MVMCoreUITopAlertMainView.m b/MVMCoreUI/TopAlert/MVMCoreUITopAlertMainView.m
index eab759e8..b7e3a80a 100644
--- a/MVMCoreUI/TopAlert/MVMCoreUITopAlertMainView.m
+++ b/MVMCoreUI/TopAlert/MVMCoreUITopAlertMainView.m
@@ -173,7 +173,16 @@
     
     if (closeButton && !self.closeButton) {
         self.closeButton = [self addCloseButtonWithAnimationDelegate:animationDelegate];
-        [self.closeButton setTintColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
+        //Based on the way the code is ordered now in lines 68-70, contentColor should
+        //still be nil when setupCloseButton is called, making a nil check superflous.
+        //Since this ordering could change, however, it would be best to handle a situation
+        //in which the contentColor is black, for example, and the closeButton
+        //would need to be black as well.
+        if (self.contentColor == nil) {
+            [self.closeButton setTintColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
+        } else {
+            [self.closeButton setTintColor:self.contentColor];
+        }
     } else if (!closeButton && self.closeButton) {
         [self.closeButton removeFromSuperview];
         self.closeButton = nil;