Ulrich, I may be completely off-base here but there are settings for controlling what the LaTeX snippets look like and these may affect your case. I used to use the following when I had emacs with a dark background:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp :results none (setq org-format-latex-options '(:foreground "white" :background "black" :scale 3 :html-foreground "Black" :html-background "Transparent" :html-scale 1.0 :matchers ("begin" "$1" "$" "$$" "\\(" "\\[")) org-latex-create-formula-image-program 'imagemagick org-tree-slide-heading-emphasis t ) #+end_src Maybe play with these, specifically the first line? -- : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.94.1, Org release_8.3.4-1049-g481709