Re: Terminal color themes

From	Lafe <lafe@lafes.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Terminal color themes
Date	2025-11-09 23:45 +0000
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On Sun, 09 Nov 2025 23:31:44 +0000, Nuno Silva wrote:

> On 2025-11-09, Lafe wrote:

> Color disabled, background black, foreground set to what's been guessed
> on the web to be a decent match for DEC green (either #33ff33 or
> #33ff66, IIRC). And with a bitmap font for better readability.

You are also an old-school terminal user. I understand!

> But maybe this doesn't count as a color theme, given there are only two
> colors :-P

I think it counts very much. 

> (I find that at least a few "dark mode" themes tend to have poor
> contrast or readability because the background isn't black. But maybe
> this ends up being subjective to one's eyes?)

I think that's fair. Some of the more popular themes (like zenburn or 
molokai) don't use perfectly black backgrounds. But there are quite a few 
that do. My favorites so far have a fairly dark (or black) bg, and 
acutally show all 8 categories of colors.

Lafe

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Terminal color themes Lafe <lafe@lafes.invalid> - 2025-11-09 19:46 +0000
  Re: Terminal color themes The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-09 20:32 +0000
    Re: Terminal color themes Lafe <lafe@lafes.invalid> - 2025-11-09 23:40 +0000
      Re: Terminal color themes rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-10 08:03 +0000
        Re: Terminal color themes The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-10 12:12 +0000
  Re: Terminal color themes Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-09 23:31 +0000
    Re: Terminal color themes Lafe <lafe@lafes.invalid> - 2025-11-09 23:45 +0000
  Re: Terminal color themes Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-11-10 08:28 +0100
    Re: Terminal color themes Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-10 08:19 +0000
      Re: Terminal color themes Allodoxaphobia <trepidation@example.net> - 2025-11-10 12:51 +0000
        Re: Terminal color themes Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-11-15 02:11 +0000
      Re: Terminal color themes Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-11-10 15:12 +0100
        Re: Terminal color themes Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-10 23:56 +0000
          Re: Terminal color themes rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-11 03:49 +0000
          Re: Terminal color themes Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-11-11 07:37 +0100
            Re: Terminal color themes Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-11 12:00 +0000
    Re: Terminal color themes Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-11-10 10:23 -0500
    Re: Terminal color themes rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-10 21:05 +0000
  Re: Terminal color themes rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-10 07:55 +0000
  Re: Terminal color themes Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2025-11-10 12:01 +0200
  Re: Terminal color themes Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-11-10 10:19 -0500
  Re: Terminal color themes John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-11-10 09:44 -0800
  Re: Terminal color themes Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-11-15 10:03 +0000

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