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LOL @ the bright green on black terminal pictures. How shall I say it, it feels very "l33t". Too bad they didn't use more normal terminal colours, it would im
by fouc 9y ago
LOL @ the bright green on black terminal pictures. How shall I say it, it feels very "l33t". Too bad they didn't use more normal terminal colours, it would improve readability IMO.
- tyingq 9y agoIt's pretty normal and expected for those of us that spent significant time on an actual VT220 or similar. Maybe the choice was just driven by someone similar.
- zitterbewegung 9y agoIt also indicates that "this is a terminal" to someone generally browsing the page.
- jjeaff 9y agoOr maybe they are fans of The Matrix.
- musage 9y agoAmber would have the same pseudo-retro appeal, with the advantage of looking less crap, ironically. Personally, I think this is a huge deal because I'm still miffed about "flat design" and the deprecation of skeuomorphism.. except in a situations like this, where it brings nothing but ugly to the table. That's just adding insult to injury.
- ben_jones 9y agoWhat? The green on black contrast is really easy to read and blends well with other colors for syntax highlighting. It's a super common scheme among developers...
- monsieurbanana 9y agoI wouldn't say it's a common scheme. I've never seen someone use it IRL, only on pictures online. I do agree it's not a disagreeable contrast.
- mattlondon 9y agoIt is using my terminal's standard colour scheme here (grey on black, with "bold" text being white. I guess it just uses whatever theme your terminal is configured for.
- NathanKP 9y agoI don't think its a "l33t" thing its just cultural. A fair number of engineers grew up with old computers that looked like this: https://i.imgur.com/WERwVsS.jpg https://i.imgur.com/WERwVsS.jpg Personally I learned to code on an old cathode ray tube monitor with green text, hooked up to a Tandy 1000. The CRT made a lot of heat and emitted a faint electronic tonal noise when it was running. I think the use of green color in terminals today is kind of a throwback thing to those ancient devices. Even though I wouldn't really want to use an old CRT today I still remember the CRT I grew up using fondly as a much more "live" feeling device compared to modern electronics that are much colder, silent, and sterile bright. When I see a green text terminal it instantly feels familiar and comfortable, in the same way.
- puzzle 9y agoThe eyes are more sensitive to either yellow-green or blue-green, depending on whether there is light or little of it. Amber/orange/yellow was probably the second most popular choice for terminals back then.
- cat199 9y agoon the down side, if you work on one too long, it fries those particular cones in your eyes pretty good, at least in the case of green and if the contrast is too high.. my daily driver is grey-on-black these days for that reason, though I keep a warm-and fuzzy green-on-black with vt220 font and slow-baud emulator around for the occasional one-off shell command.
- LeonM 9y agoI've been using a green on black scheme for years now, imo it is the best color combination for low light environments.
- ThrowawayR2 9y agoAmber on black (à la DEC VT420 terminals and some early PC monochrome monitors) also works well in low light.
- thrill 9y agoThese aging eyes have configured all my CLI work (which is most of it) to use amber on black.