Comment by joshka

Comment by joshka 3 days ago

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I made the "Aardvark Blue" a while back[1] to solve some of the problems that most color schemes have. The goal of this theme is that:

- colors are fairly natural

- background and black are distinct

- grays are naturally ordered avoiding full black

- light and dark colors are distinct from each other

- all colors look good on background, black, dark gray, gray, white

We use this for all the screenshots on https://ratatui.rs and https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui

It's available from the usual places https://iterm2colorschemes.com/, https://windowsterminalthemes.dev/?theme=Aardvark%20Blue, built in to ghostty, extension for vscode etc.

[1]: https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes/pull/417

tasuki 3 days ago

Funny thing, those are not "the usual places" I've ever heard of, and I care somewhat about color schemes. Each of us lives in our own bubble... (my bubble is not iterm2 and not windows)

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  • joshka 2 days ago

    iterm2colorschemes is a source for various other tools as it ports out to

    "Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remmina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, MobaXterm, LXTerminal, Microsoft's Windows Terminal, Visual Studio, Alacritty, Ghostty, and many more."

    You may have used data from it without knowing about it.

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    • tasuki a day ago

      > You may have used data from it without knowing about it.

      Plausible!

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      • bado a day ago

        Yeah, when I created that repo, it was for me to store iterm themes that I found, and it took off and got ports to, well, pretty much every terminal . I didn't want to rename the repo since it's linked to in so many places. The main link people usually see is iterm2colorschemes.com but I do own terminalthemes.com and should probably just get around to pointing that one to the repo, too

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