in light of the changes we've made recently to use the console more effectively, does anyone have any thoughts on what sorts of color schemes would be useful to add to pants console output? @hundreds-father-404 since I know you've thought about this some in the context of python tool output

Most important thing to me is accessibility for people with color blindness, as possible. There are certain color combinations to avoid that make it more accessible. @dry-analyst-73584 did some research I think we found the color scheme used for

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works pretty well. We’re using magenta, cyan, green, and red. I’d recommend sticking to those.

right. do we have any of those guidelines about colorblindness-friendliness written up anywhere?

We don’t. I don’t remember finding any resources dedicated to accessibility with CLIs in particular. Lots of resources about the topic in general, though, like the importance of not relying on color and only using it to enhance.

https://whocanuse.com/ and https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ were both helpful