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Ask HN: What Terminal apps (via homebrew) support 24 bit color on macOS Tahoe?
4 points by amichail 18 hours ago | 7 comments

Any suggestions besides micro and helix?

xscott 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If you just want to see the colors in action, here's some some JavaScript you could run with Deno:

    const encoder = new TextEncoder();

    function csi(text, ... args) {
        const filt = args.filter(xx => xx !== null);
        const output = "\x1b[" + filt.join(";") + "m" + text;
        Deno.stdout.writeSync(encoder.encode(output));
    }

    csi("True Color RGB:\n");
    for (let ii = 0; ii<32; ++ii) {
        for (let jj = 0; jj<64; ++jj) {
            const fg_rr = jj*4;
            const fg_bb = ii*8;
            const fg_gg = (fg_rr + 3*fg_bb)>>2;

            const bg_rr = 255 - ii*8;
            const bg_gg = 127;
            const bg_bb = 255 - jj*4;
            csi("+",
                38, 2, fg_rr, fg_gg, fg_bb,
                48, 2, bg_rr, bg_gg, bg_bb,
            );
        }
        csi("\n");
    }
al_borland 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Apple’s own Terminal.app supports 24 bit color in Tahoe. Not sure if you were already aware, which sparked the question, or not.

mechanicum 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

When you say Terminal app, do you really mean shell commands? i.e. do you want to run something in Terminal.app that will demonstrate the expanded colour range?

Try btop, a resource monitor with true colour support and 37 builtin themes.

amichail 16 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, I mean programs I can run in Apple's Terminal app on macOS Tahoe that would use the new 24 bit color feature.

yincong0822 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

iterm, it's the best

hirvi74 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If I am not mistaken, Alacritty does [1]. I believe iTerm2 and Kitty support 24 bit color too.

[1] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty

amichail 17 hours ago | parent [-]

The Terminal app in macOS Tahoe supports 24 bit color.