Customizing terminal colours can be challenging, often due to issues like hard-to-read color combinations and inconsistent colour standards across terminal emulators. Common problems include schemes like blue on black or bright yellow on white being difficult to read. Two main ways to configure colours are through terminal emulator settings or using shell scripts. Modern terminals and tools offer 256 colours and theme support, but customization complexities persist. A notable feature to improve readability is the 'minimum contrast' setting. Using tools like base16-shell and base16-vim can help harmonize colours between your terminal and editor.
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problem 1: blue on blackthe 16 ANSI colourswhat are the ANSI colours?problem 1.5: bright yellow on whitetwo ways to reconfigure your colourswhat are the pros and cons of the 2 ways of configuring your colours?problem 2: programs using 256 colourssome newer tools seem to have theme supportproblem 3: the grays in Solarizedproblem 4: a vim theme that doesn’t match the terminal backgroundproblem 5: programs setting a background colora nice solution to contrast issues: “minimum contrast”problem 6: TERM being set to the wrong thingproblem 7: picking “good” colours is hardproblem 8: making nethack/mc look rightproblem 9: commands disabling colours when writing to a pipeproblem 10: unwanted colour in ls and other commandssome more problems I left outokay, that was a lotbase16 has really worked for mesome other colorscheme toolsminimum contrast seems like an amazing feature1 Comment
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