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GiovanniStyle, high readability for your Terminal.app
Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Random Stuff
Soon after Leopard came out I read an article on Slashdot about color contrast. There was a comment that struck me that explained how there were two types of contrast and that you had to maximize both the achieve maximum readabilty. That comment suggested light yellow on dark blue as the best color scheme for terminals.
I made some experimentations with Terminal.app and was pleasantly surprised the commenter was right. I added Consolas to the mix to get the best possible Terminal experience.
After a while my friends and coworkers started to notice my terminal and kept asking me for my .terminal file. Soon after that even customers started asking for it, so I did what the cool guys do and put it on GitHub.
You can find it here: http://github.com/intinig/giovanni_style/tree/master
Let me know what you think 
Update: here’s a screenshot of the default style and GiovanniStyle side by side. It doesn’t do it any justice, so please try it and remember you have to have Consolas installed.
