Need accessible color scheme for PowerShell

Anonymous
2024-12-17T22:44:47+00:00

I suffer from macular degeneration. Visual elements on dark background are difficult to see, especially text. This is made much worse if the font is small, or if the text color isn't bright enough, or contrast is generally lacking.

The CMD.EXE shell and Powershell windows in Win11 default to color scheme with dark backgrounds. There are additional color schemes with white backgrounds, called "One half light", "Solarized light", and "Tango light".

I tried all 3 of these schemes with Powershell.

With Tango light, when I start typing a command, the command text is yellow, and the background is white. The text is unreadable to me as a result.

With Solarized light, the command text is readable, but the arguments are not. They seem to be in green text over a white background, which is also unreadable.

With Tango light, the command text is readable, but arguments are not, also.

I was able to create a custom scheme :

Those old enough will recognize this as one of the two default CGA color palettes.

Unfortunately, this still doesn't work. Argument text gets displayed with a different color.

And continuing to type changes the color once more.

At this font size, I can read both, but at more practical smaller size, I cannot read the first one due to low contrast of grey text on white background.

Is there a way to create a color scheme that doesn't have low contrast elements when using Powershell ?

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-12-19T06:42:08+00:00

    Hi,

    As far as I know Windows Terminal cannot automatically adjust the colors based on contrast, so you have to manually increase the contrast between White and Background.

    Since it's more a Windows Terminal issue, it is recommended to ask on the Windows Terminal page on GitHub.

    Issues · microsoft/terminal

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