Dimidium

Dimidium is a standard-looking terminal color scheme, adjusted to have uniform visibility across all colors.

It aims to be a solid default for terminals.

📣 News: Dimidium is now built into Windows Terminal (since v1.23.12681.0). 🥳

(Font: Cascadia Code)

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🛠️ Usage

Terminal config download and guides

→ Go to the config directory.

Community Ports

• dimidium-btop - Dimidium color scheme for btop system monitor.

Color table

Text version

Crafting Dimidium

By adjusting traditional color scheme, Dimidium solves visibility issues while preserving their essence.

Color Appearance Model

Crafted with CAM16, it considers the perceptual aspects(lightness, hue) of human color vision.

Half lightness disparity

(Top: Before adjustment / Bottom: Dimidium)

By reducing perceptual lightness differences by half, common issues such as too dark blues and excessively vibrant greens have been resolved.

(Note: 'Dimidium' is Latin for 'half'.)

Uniform hue difference

(Left: Before adjustment / Right: Dimidium)

Hue differences were equalized to maximize color variation.

Introducing hue offsets between normal/bright colors ensures even better distinction.

Further reading

Explore the science behind Dimidium.

Color appearance model - Wikipedia

Dimidium: Terminal color scheme crafted with science (한국어)

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