Mac OS X Lion Terminal Theme: Peppermint

Development 29/09/2011

I do a lot of work in Mac OS X’s Terminal.app, and I’ve spent some time tweaking the colors, font, and other settings to get it just right. The result is Peppermint, a Terminal theme for Lion:

#000000
#E6E6E6
#FF0028

#4C4C4C
#FF6685
#A6EBA6
#FFDC72
#5DC6F5
#FF8FFF
#86D1D7
#DBDBDB

#737373
#FFA8BA
#C5EBC5
#F9F9A5
#8DDBFF
#FFABFF
#B0F0F0
#FFFFFF

The background, text, and bold text colors respectively on the top row; normal and bright colors below.

The text colors were chosen for maximum legibility on the dark background. The soft white text is accented with the red-pink bold text style.

Screenshot of terminal window on desktop

Peppermint on the desktop

Feel free to download the .terminal file and enjoy.

Version 1.1

Increased background opacity for better legibility when window is on a light backdrop
Removed background blur
Very subtle adjustments to colors

Version 1.0

Initial Release

Download Peppermint Terminal Theme (1.1)

Comments 5

Shajahan says:

10/12/2011 at 10:00

Is this compatible with Lion? I don’t see any color highlights, all text is white.
Shajahan says:

10/12/2011 at 10:01

I see you have mentioned Lion clearly… what should I do to make this work right.
Noah Frederick says:

10/12/2011 at 10:42

Hi Shajahan,

Keep in mind that colors besides white will only show up when output is colored in the first place. For example, the Bash prompt in the screen above is styled with bold text, which I set in my .bashrc file:
```
COLOR_BOLD="\[\e[1m\]"
COLOR_DEFAULT="\[\e[0m\]"
PS1="$COLOR_BOLD\u@\h \w \$ $COLOR_DEFAULT"
```
Likewise, colored output from various utilities including ls can be turned on with
```
export CLICOLOR=1
```
A little Googling will find you more information about enabling and using colors at the command line.

Hope that helps.
vladh says:

03/02/2012 at 10:57

god, oh god yes.
Brandon says:

03/02/2012 at 22:05

Beautiful! Now only if it supported iTerm.

Noah Frederick