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BeetleB 8 hours ago

Hard disagree on the red/green. Use whatever you think appropriate and make it user configurable.

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mrob 8 hours ago | parent [-]

It's a CLI app, it's already configurable. Every good terminal emulator lets you set custom palettes.

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kps 8 hours ago | parent [-]

>Every good terminal emulator lets you set custom palettes

Not differently for each program's output.

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mrob 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Which is a good reason to stick with the de-facto standard of red for bad and green for good.

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sceptic123 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

unless you're colour blind

	▲	mrob 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If you're color blind, you change the palette in your terminal emulator so "red" and "green" become different colors you can distinguish. It even works for rarer forms of color blindness. This works best when people follow the de-facto standard.
	▲	skydhash 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Red here does not mean #ff0000. it means color 1. in the 4 bit colors palette

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BeetleB 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If for something unrelated to good/bad looks good, I'm using red. Ditto for green.

Sure, if it was a status indicator and I used red for "good", I can see the point. But over the last few years I've had too many people tell me "Don't use red, people will think something is wrong" for things not semantically tied to good/bad.

People wear red clothes. They buy red cars. They eat red food. They date red heads. Red is OK.