terminal.ansiBrightBlack is hard to see in integrated terminal

[seanamosw]

I find it very difficult to see things in the integrated terminal using this color.

[dsifford]

Awaiting reply on this and then I'll fix: dracula/dracula-theme#232 (comment)

[dsifford]

@seanamosw Curious what command you have running that outputs BrightBlack on background? Trying out some other colors and there's really not much better I can do than what currently exists. BrightBlack on BG is just a poor color combination.

[seanamosw]

To clarify, in the original screenshot, the hard to see text is * -Recurse -Force which is just powershell highlighting in the terminal.
This is using the powershell extension for the integrated terminal.

Some other colorful console loggers also use this color and it is very hard to see with the Dracula theme.
As a temporary workaround, I just changed the color to #808080 so it is readable, at least to me on my screen.

Comparison with Monokai in ConEmu/Cmder:

[dsifford]

@seanamosw Could you try changing terminal.background to the theme's background color (#282A36) and see if that helps?

I think the issue is likely the fact that the integrated terminal background is a darkened variant of the editor's background color.

Thanks in advance!

[dsifford]

Switched the bg color back to default. Hopefully that helps.

[seanamosw]

Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. Unfortunately, the improvement is marginal, if any. I'm still resorting to lightening the terminal.ansiBrightBlack color to #808080 to get readability.

I've attached some console logging output to demonastrate.
Take note of the characters [],={}

Default 2.2.0, can barely see the characters.

Modified terminal.ansiBrightBlack:

I have not tested on another display to see if it's universally difficult to see.

[seanamosw]

I thought I would add an example of what it looks in ConEmu with the Dracula ConEmu theme.

Not quite as light as my workaround, but still readable: