> Semantically colored text, by definition, reduces visual noise. Not by definition. It adds information. If that matches the text 100%, it is redundant. If it

> Semantically colored text, by definition, reduces visual noise. Not by definition. It adds information. If that matches the text 100%, it is redundant. If it isn't, it adds noise. So it depends very much of what you consider "noise". > After doing a bit of googling there are infact a number of studies that show that colored text seems to positively affect both short term free and serial recall. I'm curious what you think are good sources for that. Many studies have been done on color and text, but I've never seen one that gives a good argument in favor of coloring command line output. Note: recall isn't a goal of color in (most) command line output. Perhaps there is some case, but I wouldn't know which one.