VS Code terminal colors are screwy

Question

I\'m using the default theme. The terminal\'s colors are impossible to read, make no sense, and are inconsistent. I\'ve tried switching themes but they\'re terrible in all t

Answer 1

Okay, so here's a list of all possible settings that you could tweak in your terminal window colorscheme: (source)

    "workbench.colorCustomizations": {
      "terminal.background":"#1D2021",
      "terminal.foreground":"#A89984",
      "terminalCursor.background":"#A89984",
      "terminalCursor.foreground":"#A89984",
      "terminal.ansiBlack":"#1D2021",
      "terminal.ansiBlue":"#0D6678",
      "terminal.ansiBrightBlack":"#665C54",
      "terminal.ansiBrightBlue":"#0D6678",
      "terminal.ansiBrightCyan":"#8BA59B",
      "terminal.ansiBrightGreen":"#95C085",
      "terminal.ansiBrightMagenta":"#8F4673",
      "terminal.ansiBrightRed":"#FB543F",
      "terminal.ansiBrightWhite":"#FDF4C1",
      "terminal.ansiBrightYellow":"#FAC03B",
      "terminal.ansiCyan":"#8BA59B",
      "terminal.ansiGreen":"#95C085",
      "terminal.ansiMagenta":"#8F4673",
      "terminal.ansiRed":"#FB543F",
      "terminal.ansiWhite":"#A89984",
      "terminal.ansiYellow":"#FAC03B"
    }

Now for me, the colors of folder names was too bright over an even brighter background color that highlighted them and I couldn't read squat (that's because of my VSCode theme called NightOwl -- :P Sarah) so I thought (wrongly) to change terminal.background and terminal.foreground properties but that refer to the entire rendered window of the terminal.

Because these properties are actually named after Ansi Escape Codes, what I was actually looking for were these properties: terminal.ansiBlue for folder name text color and terminal.ansiGreen for folder name background highlight color.

As soon as I tweaked those, my terminal was good to go. The way to do it is to just set all these settings and start removing or changing them to see which is which for your preference. K Thx Bye

Also beware that terminal.ansiGreen is used by git diff as a color to show additions.