Most of my time in Claude Code isn't spent reading syntax-highlighted code. It's spent reading tool output, permission prompts, reasoning traces, multi-paragraph explanations. The ANSI slots that matter aren't keyword and string — they're whatever color Claude Code uses for the text you read in bulk, the text that asks you to approve a bash command, the text that explains what just happened. Existing dark themes are tuned for code editors. They either ignore those slots or map them to colors cal

Terminal themes optimize for code. Claude Code is mostly prose.
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