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If you care about this, use a desaturated (or even monochrome) color scheme for your terminal. If you encounter software that tries to use 256/true color, use a
by rollcat 3y ago
If you care about this, use a desaturated (or even monochrome) color scheme for your terminal. If you encounter software that tries to use 256/true color, use a terminal that doesn't support it (or that can disable it).
I use a desaturated theme for coding: bg #f6f6f3, fg #303030, keyword #303060, etc (and a dark variant for the late sessions). I have a little bit more saturation in the terminal (eg #3465a4 for blue) but it's definitely on the toned down side, compared e.g. to the xterm or Terminal.app defaults.
Remember when MS Windows allowed you to change the color of every single UI element? Some of these color schemes were really beautiful. We should go back to user-themeable UIs.
- nottorp 3y agoI wonder if people who like desaturated color schemes for code haven't set their monitors too bright. Or at least too bright for my tastes. I keep my monitors on as low brightness as i can without losing color and I end up using high saturation themes to make things more clear.
- rollcat 3y agoDesaturated colors are a good middle ground between monochrome and fruit salad, especially for text. My other screen is a Thinkpad X230 and there's no definition of "too bright" that fits it, even at max brightness.