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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 highlighting, everybody seems to enjoy their terminal prompts looking like a lit christmas tree!

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Hold on, do people use light mode in terminals?

I always set mine to black on a fairly light (192) grey, or sometimes grey with a hint of red (192, 160, 160)

Thanks - I will give it a try! The lightest I have ever used was MS DOS blue (#0000FF).

It's even default on MacOS

I 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.

Thankfully 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...

https://conemu.github.io/en/SettingsColors.html#id3056

First I've seen of this, really interesting - thanks!

I 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")

Yes, 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".

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