Then, by definition, most use of color in the command line is not semantic, because it increases visual noise for me. You may like color, that's fine. But for

Then, by definition, most use of color in the command line is not semantic, because it increases visual noise for me. You may like color, that's fine. But for me, the effect of colored text as it is used today is akin to prose with every other word randomly colored[1], often in a color that blends in with the background of the page. Turning off the colors, for me, is a large improvement. Using them sparingly, carefully, with a preference for bolding and italicizing to make metadata stand out from data, would be better. This is far harder to patch in to most programs, and a much larger uphill battle. Turning off colors is, by and large, the low hanging fruit. [1] https://cdn.gbraad.nl/images/blog/english-text-highlighting.png https://cdn.gbraad.nl/images/blog/english-text-highlighting....