Getting Fancy Color Schemes on a Mac OSX Terminal

sathish vj
1 min readFeb 20, 2015

If you want some exciting colors on the Mac OSX default terminal, this one is for you.

Go to https://github.com/lysyi3m/osx-terminal-themes. Then “Download as Zip” in the side nav on the right. You should now have the file “osx-terminal-themes-master.zip” in your Downloads folder. Extract it. You will see the folder “~/Downloads/osx-terminal-themes-master/schemes”.

Now open a terminal window. Choose Preferences in the main menu and the Profiles. At the bottom of the list of existing profiles, click the third menu item with a gear on it and select ‘Import…’ in the dropdown.

Now choose the ‘.terminal’ files in the extracted folder one by one (yup, I couldn’t select all) and you will see it added to the list of profiles.

+Tip: In an existing terminal, press ‘Cmd + i’ to bring up the profiles window from which you can choose a preferred color scheme.

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sathish vj
sathish vj

Written by sathish vj

tech architect, tutor, investor | GCP 12x certified | youtube/AwesomeGCP | Google Developer Expert | Go

Responses (3)

You can just highlight all of the .terminal files in Finder, and drag and drop the whole selection into the profile picker. No need to do “Import Profile” for each individual file.

Thanks for sharing the schemes but my terminal text has only one color ! mono , e.g. when I type …$>ls folders and files has same color.