base16 VS macos-terminal-themes

- Let the user set their shell colors however they want (presumably using [2]), and use the ANSI shell colors (and a few more) according to the base16 style guide [1]. Some translation between shell colors and base16 colors will be necessary, e.g. base16 says that a language keyword should use the color base0E, which in [2] corresponds to ANSI shell color 13.

My impression is that the base16 specification is not sufficiently general for most tools to implement it in a totally unbambiguous way, but if users can set their own colorschemes with a config file, it's not hard for a user to come up with a base16-approximating colorscheme template file, from which other users can generate a config file that sets a specific base16 colorscheme.

[1]: https://github.com/chriskempson/base16/blob/main/styling.md

Big fan of the base16 philosophy

If anyone struggles with this in the feature, what I was looking for was a list like the one in https://github.com/chriskempson/base16/blob/39fb23df970d4d6190d000271dec260250986012/styling.md.

Correct. It uses main Base16 styling.

Nice. Might be useful for dumping themes for the base16 framework

Stuff with base16 support is a good place to look. I've had good luck with Gruvbox (dark, hard).

I am not entirely sure what you mean by "universal format for themes", but there I personally love Base16 convention with its recommendation for styling. This is what I ended up (re)implementing for Neovim: mini.base16. It's been around, so most of instruments should have support for this.

It’s been mentioned earlier in this thread, but base16 is basically that. I use it, and it’s ok!

http://chriskempson.com/projects/base16/

I'm talking about themes for terminals, text editors, notifications, [task]bars, etc. For example, these.

You can change the specific color shades to something nicer, but keep the color mapping the same (1=red, 2=green etc.), just like most of these themes: https://github.com/lysyi3m/macos-terminal-themes

Now, I've downloaded a load of colorschemes(https://github.com/lysyi3m/macos-terminal-themes), they were in my ~/Downloads first but I've sinced moved the whole master folder to ~. The instructions are to go into themes and open any Example.terminal file, which opens a terminal window with those colours, then go to "Shell" > "Use settings as default". When I do this, or even if I don't do this, I'm not allowed to use the ls command from the ~/Downloads directory at all. Even when I close this, as I did open it as a .terminal file, and reopen the app, when I try ls ~/Downloads I just get:

If you want to reverse the colors so the text is white with a black background (like in a lot of Linux distros) you can press cmd , to open the preferences then select I believe it is called the pro theme and then click on make default. I use the Homebrew theme which is green on black (because it reminds me of my first Linux computer (a raspi 3b)). Though GitHub has a ton of color schemes https://github.com/lysyi3m/macos-terminal-themes I believe you just open the file and it installs to terminal and you can enable it be same way I said earlier.

You can play around with the colours in the Terminal Profiles yourself but I would suggest going with a pre-made theme because they will have considered the constrast and readability of the colours in different scenarios. Here's a list of cool MacOS Terminal Themes.

hah. stay away from r/unixporn. change can be good though. people always like to look at something new, different, and flashy. try a different font? my favorite is Input, with Nerd Font glyphs applied. Look for a new theme, i personally use material-dark. and then you can spend hours tweaking a prompt. powerline10k is my go-to prompt-construction-set.

Any colors that suit you. I think dark background is better for your eyes. Your can try more color schemes here. You can use iTerms2 as an alternative to default terminal