Thanks to some coworkers and David Wilson’s Emacs from Scratch playlist, I’ve been getting back into Emacs. The community is more vibrant than the last time I looked, and LSP brings modern completion and inline type checking.
How to Choose Colors for Your CLI Applications · Luna’s Blog
Let’s say you’re creating a CLI tool which has to display syntax highlighted source code. You begin by choosing some colors which look nice with your chosen terminal theme:
Introducing Glyph Protocol for Terminals - Raphael Amorim
There’s one thing about terminals that has always bothered me: to get your favorite editor, prompt, or TUI to render nicely, you are almost always forced to install a patched font. You know the drill. You open a fresh terminal, pull up your editor, and half of the UI is replaced by little rectangles — the infamous tofu. The fix is to go download a Nerd Font, or Powerline, or some other patched set, and switch your terminal font to it. A font that is often well above 10MB in size1. All of that — just so you can render...
OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
CSS Color Module 4 adds oklch(), and we gain P3 wide-gamut support, boost code readability, and improve developer-designer communication.
Boron — beautiful images of your terminal
Compose a terminal session, keep its ANSI colors, and export it as an image.
OKHST: predictable color generation for user interfaces — tenphi.me
OKHST is a tone-based color space for generating UI palettes that behave more predictably across states, dark mode, and high contrast.
Lumis - Syntax Highlighter
Syntax highlighting powered by Tree-sitter and Neovim themes. One API across CLI, Rust, Elixir, JavaScript / TypeScript, browsers, and Java.
brevity1swos/rgx
regex101 for the terminal — real-time matching, 3 engines, capture groups, replace mode, syntax highlighting, plain-English explanations, undo/redo, mouse support. Written in Rust.
Matt DesLauriers on Twitter / X
does Jev understand colour?incredible model, very cheap and fast. definitely feels like a leap forward for creating new UX/UI paradigms on top of modern language models. pic.twitter.com/jerVstb9wj— Matt DesLauriers (@mattdesl) September 18, 2026
leaf : Terminal Markdown previewer — GUI-like experience.
leaf renders Markdown files with rich formatting, syntax highlighting, LaTeX math, Mermaid diagrams, and more — all without leaving your terminal.
Shader Color
Shader Color is three groundbreaking typefaces that reimagine our existing design Shader for its Color Font debut. Shader 16 boasts bright 16-bit pixels. Shader 64 revels in shiny 64-bit chrome. Shader Glitch conjures a future where technology conspires against us.
Too Much Color
I spent too much time looking at too many colo(u)rs to try and optimise them for csskit. Here are some interesting findings.
etui
A TUI library for Gleam: correct Unicode, minimal-diff rendering, clean terminal teardown.
CSS Color Spaces and Relative Color Syntax | 12 Days of Web
Learn how to define color palettes that are perceptually uniform using the new Oklch color space and the relative color syntax in CSS.
Lovely Set of #rstats color pallets: ltc-color-palettes
