terminal_style_toolkit

Scripts / tools / config for terminal styling and colors / colours

• terminal_style_toolkit
  • Notes
    • Fonts Notes
  • Sample files
  • Scripts for running in terminal
  • Conversion tools
  • Misc tools
  • Putty
  • Microsoft Windows CMD.exe
  • Resources
    • Color Codes
    • Color Tools
    • vim
    • ls colors / dir_colors
    • Related projects
      • Non-Terminal
    • TODO Resources
      • Color Scheme Collections

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Notes

When testing out a color scheme/theme consider different use cases:

• pyshow_colors2.py
  • with ls_colors_test.txt
• ls colors (LSCOLORS, LS_COLORS, dircolors and .dir_colors)
  • dracula/putty#3
  • ls_colors_test.txt
  • https://github.com/joshjon/bliss-dircolors - good starting point
• neofetch
• vim colorscheme

In general avoid:

• Solutions that modify the TERM variable in .bashrc.
• Solutions that modify the Vim t_Co variable.

Fonts Notes

• Under Linux, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono is typically built-in and not bad
• Under Windows, the built-in Consolas is not bad (better than Courier New, that Putty defaults to), available since Microsoft Windows Vista. A similar (free) font is Inconsolata / InconsolataGo (Inconsolata with straight quotes)
• Many fonts at https://www.nerdfonts.com/ - worth checking out:
  • EnvyCodeR
  • FiraMono - https://mozilla.github.io/Fira/
  • Go-Mono
  • InconsolataGo https://github.com/im-AMS/Inconsolata-Nerd-Font-with-ligatures
  • Overpass
  • UbuntuMono
• Fantasque Sans Mono - https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans
• Iosevka
  • http://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka
  • https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka
  • https://typeof.net/Iosevka/

Sample files

• sample_text_editor.txt utf-8 text file to test view/edit of fixed width fonts. Not suitable for in depth syntax highlighting tests.
• https://github.com/altercation/solarized/tree/master/utils/tests has a collection of (small) different source code file types for testing syntax highlighting.
• https://github.com/darekkay/config-files/tree/master/color-schemes/example-files

Scripts for running in terminal

• truecolor.awk modified from https://github.com/sonph/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/truecolor.sh - truecolor test
• invaders.bash from https://paste.xinu.at/m-dAiJ/
• show_colors.bash from https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=51818&p=1%29
  • Unknown license, many different versions of this script online
• show_colors2.bash my version derived from show_colors.bash
• color-test.bash - derived from https://gilesorr.com/bashprompt/howto/c333.html - shows all foreground colors as text with default background as a sanity check
• pyshow_colors2.py in-progress Python version of show_colors2.bash
• colors.py from https://gist.github.com/lilydjwg/fdeaf79e921c2f413f44b6f613f6ad53
• parse_palette_tools.py - tools for dumping palettes for easier read/conversion

Conversion tools

• putty/any2theme.py - Convert many input theme formats and render with any template (or output raw tstk json). Input files supported; tstk json, Alacritty TOML, iTerm2, Putty reg, pywal16
• parse_palette_tools.py - tools for dumping palettes for easier read/conversion
• alacritty_yaml2toml.py - rough convert alacritty YAML into alacritty TOML
• goghjson2puttyjson.py - tools for converting Gogh JSON Color Schemes from https://github.com/Gogh-Co/Gogh/ into json that Putty conversion tools (json2putty_reg.py) can use
• pywaltemplate2puttymustache.py - convert pywal16 template
• putty/json2putty_reg.py - convert (Putty) json into Putty registry import and html preview - Used to create https://github.com/clach04/putty_themes
• Also see https://github.com/clach04/themer

Misc tools

• mintty_screenshot.py - launch mintty with specific theme and run pyshow_colors2 and then take a screenshot To setup: pip install -r requirements_optional.txt Screenshots are in BMP format, strongly recommend converting to PNG for size/space reasons.

Putty

See Putty tools readme and also https://github.com/clach04/putty_themes/

• python_windows_registry_putty_colors.py - dumps session names and colors (only) along with simple show sessions that use the exact same same-color scheme feature
• Sane Putty settings https://web.archive.org/web/20191231204120/http://dag.wiee.rs/blog/content/improving-putty-settings-on-windows lots of good tips, identifies the problem with the out of box blue color in Putty, recommends:
  • ANSI Blue; Red: 74 Green: 74 Blue:255
  • ANSI Blue Bold; Red:140 Green:140 Blue:255
• https://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/07/10-practical-putty-tips-and-tricks-you-probably-didnt-know/

Microsoft Windows CMD.exe

See Color Tool (ColorTool) https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases/tag/1904.29002 The campbell.ini color scheme is the Windows 10 Fall Creator's Update CMD out-of-box colors if need to restore to original colors.

From https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/tree/1904.29002/tools/ColorTool readme:

• cmd-legacy is the legacy color scheme of the Windows Console, before July 2017
• campbell is the new default scheme used by the Windows Console Host, as of the Fall Creator's Update.

NOTE latest ColorTool source is located in https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/tree/main/src/tools/ColorTool

ColorTool can use:

1. json format as used by concfg https://github.com/lukesampson/concfg
2. XML format as used by iTerm2-Color-Schemes - https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes/
3. INI format, as provided in samples for ColorTool https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/tree/main/src/tools/ColorTool

Resources

Color Codes

ANSI colors are numbered:

0	black
1	red
2	green
3	yellow
4	blue
5	magenta
6	cyan
7	white

8	bright black
9	bright red
10	bright green
11	bright yellow
12	bright blue
13	bright magenta
14	bright cyan
15	bright white

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#3-bit_and_4-bit
• https://jakob-bagterp.github.io/colorist-for-python/ansi-escape-codes/standard-16-colors/
• https://hexdocs.pm/color_palette/color_table.html
• https://github.com/termstandard/colors
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4842424/list-of-ansi-color-escape-sequences/75985833#75985833 useful table of codes
• https://github.com/Gbox4/ansicodes - interactive web page for generating ANSI escape codes

Color Tools

• http://colorlab.wickline.org/colorblind/colorlab/ - view colors in web browser and simulate color blindness
• https://terminal.sexy/
• https://it-tools.tech/color-converter
  • https://github.com/CorentinTh/it-tools
• https://iconscout.com/blog/best-color-palette-generators-for-any-design-project
• https://colorffy.com/color-scheme-generator?color=257abb
• https://github.com/clach04/themer
• pastel A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors

vim

• https://bytefluent.com/vivify/ A ColorScheme Editor for Vim
• https://github.com/chrisbra/Colorizer vim plugin to visualize hex color codes

vim themes that only use ANSI (16) colors - https://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/vim-16-color/

• https://github.com/noahfrederick/vim-noctu
• https://github.com/jeffkreeftmeijer/vim-dim/
• https://github.com/dylanaraps/wal.vim - actually 8 colors
• https://github.com/chriskempson/base16-vim/
• NeoVim
  • https://github.com/uZer/pywal16.nvim
  • https://github.com/AlphaTechnolog/pywal.nvim
  • https://github.com/sonjiku/yawnc.nvim

Midnight Commander

See https://github.com/jan-warchol/selenized/tree/putty/mc and jan-warchol/selenized#7

MC's default color settings assume that terminal's blue will be very dark and suitable for use as background.

ls colors / dir_colors

• https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/5-dir_colors/

• https://github.com/joshjon/bliss-dircolors

• https://github.com/seebi/dircolors-solarized

• https://github.com/nordtheme/dircolors

• https://github.com/clach04?submit=Search&q=dircolors&tab=stars&type=&sort=&direction=&submit=Search

• dracula/putty#3 - Unreadable colors/colors with a=rwx permission directory and ls in color mode - default dircolors conflicts with terminal colors

• Suggestion from https://github.com/jan-warchol/selenized/tree/putty/dircolors related to jan-warchol/selenized#1

  # fix dircolors for Selenized
  export LS_COLORS="$LS_COLORS:ow=1;7;34:st=30;44:su=30;41"
  

• https://github.com/sharkdp/vivid A themeable LS_COLORS generator with a rich filetype datebase

• https://github.com/trapd00r/LS_COLORS - nice selection of consistent colors flr filetypes

Related projects

• https://github.com/anonimoanemico/puttier
  • Supports previewing a theme
• https://github.com/mvelikikh/putty-session-manager

Non-Terminal

• https://github.com/monolifed/scite_theme scite themes from base16 config
• https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes/tree/master/tools
• https://github.com/Gogh-Co/Gogh/tree/master/tools
• Base-16/Base16 and derivatives
• https://github.com/worron/ACYLS - Any Color You Like Simple icon pack
• Windows Color Pickers
  • http://instant-eyedropper.com/
    • https://github.com/miaupaw/instant-eyedropper
  • http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.php
  • https://colorcop.net/
    • https://github.com/ColorCop/ColorCop

TODO Resources

• https://blog.codinghorror.com/code-colorizing-and-readability/ note, cites studies with CRTs, pre lcd.

To checkout:

• https://github.com/fikovnik/bin-scripts/blob/master/color-test.sh
• https://github.com/fikovnik/bin-scripts/blob/master/term-colors.py
• https://github.com/mvelikikh/putty-session-manager
• https://ciembor.github.io/4bit/ - could code from https://github.com/ciembor/4bit be used as a web viewer preview (compare with puttier)

Color schemes that pass eyeball test but I'd like to checkout:

• https://github.com/mattly/iterm-colors-farmhouse - light and dark
• https://github.com/mattly/iterm-colors-pencil - light and dark
• https://github.com/kepano/flexoki - light and dark

Color Scheme Collections

• iTerm2
  • https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes - preview limited
    • https://iterm2colorschemes.com/
  • https://github.com/wozozo/Hemisu-Light-iTerm2
• https://github.com/Gogh-Co/Gogh - OK preview, can at least see palette block to easily compare colors
  • https://gogh-co.github.io/Gogh/
  • 16 color themes that have bright/bold versions of base colors
    • Aci
    • Argonaut
    • Azu
    • Bim
    • Birds Of Paradise
    • Blazer
    • Blue Dolphin
    • ...
• Alacritty
  • https://github.com/embark-theme/alacritty
  • https://github.com/rajasegar/alacritty-themes/ - no previews
    • https://github.com/rajasegar/alacritty-themes/blob/master/themes/IR-Black.toml
  • https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty-theme - preview limited
    • citylights
    • Cobalt2 - https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty-theme/blob/master/themes/Cobalt2.toml
    • dark_pastels
    • dark_plus
    • doom_one
    • dracula
    • dracula_plus
    • enfocado_dark
    • enfocado_light
    • flexoki
    • github_dark_high_contrast
    • github_light
    • google
    • gnome_terminal
    • gruvbox_dark
    • gruvbox_light
    • kanagawa_dragon
    • kanagawa_wave
    • midnight-haze
    • monokai
    • monokai_charcoal
    • monokai_pro
    • moonlight_ii_vscode
    • nord
    • oceanic_next
    • palenight
    • pencil_dark
    • pencil_light
    • remedy_dark
    • rose-pine
    • rose-pine-moon
    • smoooooth
    • synthwave_84
    • tango_dark
    • tomorrow_night_bright
    • wombat
    • zenburn
• https://github.com/dylanaraps/paleta/tree/master/palettes
• https://github.com/tinted-theming/home - technically tools and themes
  • https://github.com/tinted-theming/base16-putty
  • https://github.com/iamthad/base16-windows-command-prompt
  • https://github.com/InspectorMustache/base16-builder-python. - Todo my older version
• Adwaita
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adwaita_(design_language)#Color
  • https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libadwaita/doc/1.5/named-colors.html
• pywal
  • https://github.com/embark-theme/pywal
    • https://embark-theme.github.io/#palette
  • https://codeberg.org/explosion-mental/wallust-themes/src/branch/master/colorschemes
• vim
  • https://github.com/twerth/ir_black/
  • https://github.com/lifepillar/vim-wwdc16-theme/blob/master/colors/wwdc16.vim - note in Putty seems to work best when :set t_Co=16