Comment by kps

Comment by kps 3 days ago

6 replies

>Every good terminal emulator lets you set custom palettes

Not differently for each program's output.

mrob 3 days ago

Which is a good reason to stick with the de-facto standard of red for bad and green for good.

  • sceptic123 3 days ago

    unless you're colour blind

    • mrob 3 days ago

      If you're color blind, you change the palette in your terminal emulator so "red" and "green" become different colors you can distinguish. It even works for rarer forms of color blindness. This works best when people follow the de-facto standard.

    • skydhash 3 days ago

      Red here does not mean #ff0000. it means color 1. in the 4 bit colors palette

      • hulitu 19 hours ago

        > Red here does not mean #ff0000

        For you maybe.

        "Look it is not gray on gray is black #777777 on white #333333". /s

  • BeetleB 3 days ago

    If for something unrelated to good/bad looks good, I'm using red. Ditto for green.

    Sure, if it was a status indicator and I used red for "good", I can see the point. But over the last few years I've had too many people tell me "Don't use red, people will think something is wrong" for things not semantically tied to good/bad.

    People wear red clothes. They buy red cars. They eat red food. They date red heads. Red is OK.