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How to choose colors for your CLI applications (2023)


’s say you’re creating a CLI tool which has to display syntax highlighted source code. You begin by choosing some colors which look nice with your chosen terminal theme: Nice! However, who knows if it’ll still look good for people who use a theme different to yours? It seems sensible to try out the defaults, at least.

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