From d012a7f23ea6ca3ae22f63eb5696afcec7576ff6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonny Barnes Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2026 14:02:01 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Make the Claude Code statusline follow the terminal palette MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The nine colours were hardcoded One Dark RGB via 38;2;R;G;B, so they did not follow the light/dark switch. Measured against the tangere backgrounds they are fine on dark (4.25-10.80:1) but collapse on light: orange 1.78, amber 1.70, yellow 1.63, and 'white' — used for the token total — at 1.35:1, effectively invisible. Switched to palette indices, which resolve through the terminal's own palette and so follow the ghostty tangere-light/tangere-dark swap with no detection and no cost per render. 'white' becomes 39, default foreground, since it means primary text. All seven colours actually used get distinct indices; blue and yellow are unreferenced but converted too, so no RGB is left behind. Contrast now clears WCAG AA in both modes: 5.77-14.26:1 on dark, 6.32-20.61:1 on light. Trade-off: tangere has no orange and its palette 2 is teal rather than green, so 'green' reads teal and the warm colours sit closer together than the One Dark originals did. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) --- claude/statusline.isaacaudet.sh | 25 ++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/claude/statusline.isaacaudet.sh b/claude/statusline.isaacaudet.sh index f2c3b2a..5981116 100755 --- a/claude/statusline.isaacaudet.sh +++ b/claude/statusline.isaacaudet.sh @@ -37,15 +37,22 @@ input=$(cat) mkdir -p /tmp/claude # ===== Colors ===== -blue='\033[38;2;97;175;239m' -orange='\033[38;2;255;176;85m' -amber='\033[38;2;229;192;123m' -green='\033[38;2;80;200;120m' -cyan='\033[38;2;86;182;194m' -red='\033[38;2;235;87;87m' -yellow='\033[38;2;230;200;0m' -white='\033[38;2;220;220;220m' -magenta='\033[38;2;198;120;221m' +# Palette indices rather than RGB, so these resolve through the terminal's own +# palette and follow the ghostty tangere-light/tangere-dark swap for free. No +# appearance detection, so no cost per statusline render. +# +# The previous values were One Dark RGB: fine on dark (4.3-10.8:1) but 1.35-3.4:1 +# on a light background, with 'white' effectively invisible. These clear WCAG AA +# in both modes (5.8-14.3:1 on dark, 6.3-20.6:1 on light). +blue='\033[38;5;4m' +orange='\033[38;5;3m' +amber='\033[38;5;11m' +green='\033[38;5;2m' +cyan='\033[38;5;14m' +red='\033[38;5;1m' +yellow='\033[38;5;3m' +white='\033[39m' +magenta='\033[38;5;5m' dim='\033[2m' reset='\033[0m'