
The settings.json file will open up in your default text editor. Open Windows Terminal From the dropdown, select settings. This last one can probably be considered working as well, the green text is likely due to the cmder config. To get a feel for things, changing to one of the stock themes is easy. The default cmd.exe, powershell.exe and the new Windows Terminal don’t display colors.Ĭmd in Cmder (based on ConEmu) - This works!: The color swatches on this page are based on the new COLOR defaults. This was first introduced in Windows 10 clean-install version build 16257 (1709). Long story short, there are no colors displayed on windows with any of the command shells I tried except in ConEmu. The actual colors displayed are dependent on the Terminal color scheme which can be set using ColorTool.exe The new default color scheme is called campbell.ini. This is which was said to be fixed in “the latest beta” at the time, but now appears to be broken with no beta being more recent than the latest released version (1.0.3). To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.

In 2019, the Windows Console infrastructure was open-sourced under the MIT License, alongside Windows Terminal.

Examples include cmd.exe, Windows PowerShell, Far Manager, and Midnight Commander.
