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After all these years, I like my terminals in monochrome, but I expect GUIs to be "light mode". To each its own, but don't get me started on syntax highlightin
by pantulis 3y ago
After all these years, I like my terminals in monochrome, but I expect GUIs to be "light mode".
To each its own, but don't get me started on syntax highlighting, everybody seems to enjoy their terminal prompts looking like a lit christmas tree!
- dr_kiszonka 3y agoHold on, do people use light mode in terminals?
- 15457345234 3y agoI always set mine to black on a fairly light (192) grey, or sometimes grey with a hint of red (192, 160, 160)
- dr_kiszonka 3y agoThanks - I will give it a try! The lightest I have ever used was MS DOS blue (#0000FF).
- Grangar 3y agoIt's even default on MacOS
- petepete 3y agoI did for years and still would if some terminal applications didn't assume otherwise and make some bits of text illegible because of a lack of contrast.
- noisem4ker 3y agoThankfully some terminals come with an "enhance contrast" feature to help distinguish too similar colors between foreground and background. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/customize-settings/profile-appearance#adjust-indistinguishable-colors https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/customize... https://conemu.github.io/en/SettingsColors.html#id3056 https://conemu.github.io/en/SettingsColors.html#id3056
- petepete 3y agoFirst I've seen of this, really interesting - thanks!
- mrighele 3y agoI do. I keep switching between browser, IDE and terminals; the first two are in light mode, if I used dark mode on the terminal the switch would be quite annoying. The drawback is that some modern tool hardcode the colors assuming that I have a black background, making some text hard to read (especially light-yellow "warning")
- weikju 3y agoYes, I use the "Novel" theme in macOS's Terminal, doesn't hurt my eyes and handles regular terminal/ls/etc colors properly. It's not quite "light" but definitely not "dark".