Have some fun stuff to share for fellow light mode terminal lovers: we call it Automatic…
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Have some fun stuff to share for fellow light mode terminal lovers: we call it Automatic Contrast Correction. Users of light themes will have felt my pain. Developers have generally designed text interfaces for dark mode terminals. There are many examples in the tui apps I use everyday: `lsd`, `btop` (with theme bg off), even my beloved `lazygit` has some suss legibility out the box. The issues are so bad, I generally switch to a dark theme to read stuff. Automatic Contrast Correction fixes this issue by evaluating contrast at runtime between whats being sent from the server to the macOS cl
Posted by almonk (19.7k followers) 1 days ago · 699 likes · 104.5k views · view the original post on X. Kept by the Dev Radar as Terminal & editor.
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