Color Scheme Reference

Bring joy into your environment.

Color brings me joy, and integrating color into my development environment brings an extra level of satisfaction to coding.

This set of pages is a collection of resources I’ve created in my efforts to unify color schemes across multiple terminal and coding environments.

ANSI Color Codes Explained

ANSI color codes, as used in terminals, can be categorized into three main types:

ANSI 256 Color Table

Refer to the table below to quickly identify color codes for terminal customization and scripting.

TERM Environment Variable

The environment variable TERM specifies the terminal type and the set of features, such as color support, that applications can rely on when rendering output.

LS_COLORS & dircolors

The shell environment variable LS_COLORS is used to define the colors displayed when listing file types with the ls command. It is configured via the dircolors command…

VS Code Color Theme

A detailed example on how to create and load a VS Code color theme file

GNOME Color Profile

This page describes how to create a color scheme for GNOME terminal in Ubuntu.

PuTTY Color Configuration

Learn how to customize your terminal’s appearance by modifying the PuTTY configuration color values.

Vim Color Scheme

This page includes information about color schemes in Vim. Vim color schemes use the extension .vim.