On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 12:47 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com> wrote:

I actually would prefer that we color both, and make it obvious that
"root" is special. We should account for common color-blindness
issues, though.

Sure, I think I agree: perhaps purple for root?

I am all for "color blind testing" (though I am not completely sure that "color-blind" is the right term here

though I am not an a11y expert - I thought color blind is more about differentiating different colors like green and red,

but if you mean visual impairment/contrast/readability then I completely agree).

I think in the end it will come down also to wider user testing since there are so many different terminals

and color palettes around.

Anyway that's why I proposed green since it seems to have reasonable contrast for both light and dark terminals (unlike blue/cyan/yellow often).

I assume that may also be why Ubuntu and Nixos went with green.

Jens