Windows Terminal now supports color themes

Microsoft has decided to add color to developers' lives and is adding support for themes to the standard Windows terminal. This will allow users to change the appearance of tabs, windows and even set images for the terminal interface. Microsoft has also included a dark theme by default, instead of depending on the Windows theme as it was before.

Creating themes for the terminal is not as easy as you might think. Themes can only be edited using a JSON file, and they will appear in a drop-down list of themes in the Windows terminal settings section. The company has added some JSON samples so that you can reference them when designing your own. Windows Terminal also has a new text rendering mechanism that supports bold text and underline, strikethrough or hyperlink lines.

"We found that our color schemes page wasn’t the most intuitive and could use a design refresh,” admits Cinnamon. “We’ve updated the settings UI color schemes page to improve its styling and user flow.” You can also choose a color scheme and easily set it as a default now.

Source: The Verge