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Terminal ANSI colors contrast #3623

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@fonsp

Follow-up from #3595

There are still some contrast issues in the terminal ANSI colors. I think that the colors should be inverted in "light mode". ie in light mode, "White" should actually be black. I think the idea is that terminal color code is designed for a white-text-on-black-background terminal, and in light mode, you just invert everything. Not sure if this is true...

Here is a screenshot from the MacOS terminal with bad contrast:

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And the VS Code terminal has good contrast:

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For this issue, it's good to figure out how exactly this works. What's the expectation from people who write terminal color code?

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  2. abhijeetnardele24-hash commented on Oct 6, 2026

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    Hi! I would love to work on this issue. Could you please assign it to me?

  3. fonsp commented on Oct 6, 2026

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    Hi @abhijeetnardele24-hash ! Feel free to take a look and open a draft PR! I won't use the "assign" feature but feel free to work on it.

  4. fonsp commented on Oct 8, 2026

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    Hey @abhijeetnardele24-hash ! Thanks for taking an interest! Your PR looks AI generated, but we can also AI-generate PRs ourselves.

    We are not interested so much in code, but in YOU! What do YOU think about this issue? What would you change? Why?

  5. fonsp commented on Oct 8, 2026

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    Closed as duplicate of #3596, let's continue there

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