[dredmorbius]

Gold text on black background is very, very readable and easy on the eyes.

It's been my standard for well over a decade. Preferable even to green-on-black.

The only downside is that a colorized 'ls' output is typically difficult to read (the blues used for directories are typically too dark).

[ordinary]

You can customize ls' colours. Look into the environment variable LS_COLORS.

[shabble]

I usually just configure the terminal to brighten up the blue a little.

[dredmorbius]

That's the trick.

You need to configure the colors as presented by the terminal, and I haven't mucked with that yet. Given that you're working with variations based on the ANSI color set, your initial set of values is limited.

There's a similar trick for vim color highlighting, though I've found the different color settings all involve tradeoffs, not all favorable.

[dredmorbius]

That's the trick.

You need to configure the colors as presented by the terminal, and I haven't mucked with that yet.