Terminal Colours Are Tricky

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  • selenized

    Solarized redesigned: fine-tuned color palette for programmers with focus on readability.

    Solarized has the core of a good idea but a lot of problems in the details. I started from Selenized. https://github.com/jan-warchol/selenized/blob/master/whats-w...

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  • dotfiles

    Linux configuration files (dotfiles) and some useful scripts (by xlucn)

  • no_color

    Website data for no-color.org

    I was for a while faking a 16-color terminal without support for 256 colors just to avoid this configuration hell. I also tried https://no-color.org/ because I’d rather have no colors than bad colors.

    These days I just gave up and manually configure most apps to use ANSI colors (e.g. fzf etc have command switches for that), and let Vim and Emacs be the only non-ANSI apps which are instead set to match the colorscheme I use in the rest of the terminal. (Although stuff like vim-dim let’s you go one step further if you want.)

  • catppuccin

    😸 Soothing pastel theme for the high-spirited!

  • solarized

    precision color scheme for multiple applications (terminal, vim, etc.) with both dark/light modes

    Solarized Dark, specifically, is not well-suited for terminal use, because the author has assigned "bright black" to nearly the same color as the background. Many applications expect that 'bright black' text will be visible against the background. See here for many examples: https://github.com/altercation/solarized/issues/220

    Nearly all other colorschemes represent 'bright black' as a gray color, which is readable against the black background.

  • terminal.sexy

    Create, view and edit terminal colorschemes.

    https://terminal.sexy is a decent site I use for exploring and generating downloadable terminal color configs.

  • TerminalTinder

    Fall in love with your next colorscheme

    I found this site recently and love it: https://terminaltinder.com/

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