I want to talk terminal colours, in advance of some self-paced learning I'm launching.
In IRL workshops and lectures with a projector, I've always found black on white seems to sit best for folk given long-haul tolerance and legibility.
But how about hours of UNIX commands, shell scripts and config editing in recorded video, and on your screen?
Which terminal colour combo would be easiest on your eyes in long episodes of video?
(Not in the list? Drop your pref combo in the replies)
- green on black (29%, 14 votes)
- white on black (43%, 21 votes)
- white on aubergine (Ubuntu default) (14%, 7 votes)
- black on white (12%, 6 votes)
Aral Balkan
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •@aral Thanks! This is solely in the context of screen-recorded video, of me working in the shell as a function of some new training I'm launching.
Further, some of my students will be on poor quality connections, and so how a terminal theme fares across differing video quality settings is a significant factor.
Finally, talking to some I realise that what is a low-fatigue colour space for me, may be quite the inverse for them! A fascinating topic, that leads me to look for a good compromise.
Aral Balkan
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