Funny thing, those are not "the usual places" I've ever heard of, and I care somewhat about color schemes. Each of us lives in our own bubble... (my bubble is not iterm2 and not windows)
Yeah, when I created that repo, it was for me to store iterm themes that I found, and it took off and got ports to, well, pretty much every terminal . I didn't want to rename the repo since it's linked to in so many places. The main link people usually see is iterm2colorschemes.com but I do own terminalthemes.com and should probably just get around to pointing that one to the repo, too
Ratatui dev here. We love both Bubbletea and Textual (though I'm personally not a huge fan of either Go or Python). They're inspirations for us to make good looking stuff.
If you haven't already seen it, see if you can find some screenshots of the UX for what Splice.com looked like before it pivoted to just being a sample / instrument selling site. It was kind of a git + dropbox type interface for actual DAW projects (Ableton and Fruity were supported IIRC). This was really cool and something that someone should bring back.
pro-tip: link your website root from somewhere near the top of your blog. I think the only direct link is that little purple monster at the bottom of the screen.
Ratatui itself has a lot of much nicer AI generated code in it since then ;)
We've also done a bunch of things to help drive down some of the boilerplate (not all of it mind you - as it's a library, not a framework like other TUI libs)
I think there's probably a 5th one that's new-ish. Code isn't where the value is now that agentic tools can whip out a solution to just about anything in no time, so the commentary provides semantic grounding that allows you to navigate generated code easily.
It's kind of like some of the existing reasons, but there is a difference there.
A hill that I'll die on is that Apple's terminology is more correct than PC terminology for this.
Backspace makes sense if you see the computer as a fancy typewriter.
Delete makes sense if you consider the actions from first principles.
Consider the various forms of deletion (forward, backward, word, file deletion, etc.) Each of these just has a modifier key in Apple's way of thinking. (None, Fn, Option, Cmd) which makes complete sense when viewed against how consistent it is with the whole set of interface design guidelines for Apple software.
The only reason that this doesn't make sense is that it's incompatible with your world view brought from places with different standards. They will never "fix" this as there's just nothing to fix.
> Backspace makes sense if you see the computer as a fancy typewriter.
Backspace on a typewriter only moved the position (~cursor) back one space. Hence why its symbol is the same as the left arrow key's.
Backwards Delete was a separate additional key, if the typewriter even had one, and its symbol was a cross inside an outlined left-arrow: ⌫.
Current Apple keyboard has this symbol on the "Backspace" key in some regions instead of the text "delete", but older ones did have the left arrow.
Apple calling it "Delete" goes back to Apple II. Many other older computer platforms also called it "Delete". DEC used the ⌫ symbol.
At least you don't have to type the same letters while holding a thin tape over your screen to erase them!
Apple also had separate Return and Enter symbols on keyboards for a while, which also sounds like typewriter territory but their intended use was a bit different: https://creativepro.com/a-tale-of-two-enter-keys/
- colors are fairly natural
- background and black are distinct
- grays are naturally ordered avoiding full black
- light and dark colors are distinct from each other
- all colors look good on background, black, dark gray, gray, white
We use this for all the screenshots on https://ratatui.rs and https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui
It's available from the usual places https://iterm2colorschemes.com/, https://windowsterminalthemes.dev/?theme=Aardvark%20Blue, built in to ghostty, extension for vscode etc.
[1]: https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes/pull/417
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