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 (and Mountain 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 1.2

Specify Monaco font instead of Panic Sans

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 (1.2)

Comments 9

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.
sarvin says:

29/02/2012 at 12:39

Just wanted to say thank you for the theme. It’s become my default in Terminal.app. One, very small, complaint; highlighting can be difficult to see when the backlight is turned down.
My Terminal Theme - 72Lions - The playground of developer Thodoris Tsiridis says:

26/03/2012 at 03:23

[...] window and people asked me what theme I'm using. So here you go: it's a modified version of the Noah's Peppermint theme and you can download it [...]
Wren says:

20/09/2012 at 04:27

Thanks! Loving my new Mac and this will help nicely in coming to grips with the Terminal :)
Fabio Cionini says:

02/10/2012 at 06:34

Love this theme, but this is how it looks like on my 10.7.5 MB Air… :(

http://imgur.com/LD0Iq

Can you help me? I have already cleared font caches twice and nothing changed…

Noah Frederick