Syntax highlighting looks bad in certain color schemes

[PaulJuliusMartinez]

The syntax highlighting looks bad in certain color schemes. Most notably, when using Solarized Dark, sometimes the background and foreground color are indistinguishable:

Gruvbox:

Solarized Dark:

The highlighting of search results in the previews are invisible, and the text of currently focused object keys is also unreadable.

In general, the text of the currently focused object key is often unreadable.

I'm unsure of how to solve this well and respect the user's chosen color scheme by using only the base set of 16 colors. Handling light vs. dark modes is especially difficult. (Solarized is bad because all of its Bright variants are so close together.)

The current code uses a mix of dimmed and inverted mode, but these don't always work well together in all terminals / color schemes.

[robinbowes]

Solarized Dark user on iterm here. I'm seeing the problem shown in your 3rd pic, ie. the highlighted key is illegible.

[wbolster]

selenized (solarized variation) light theme suffers from the same problem:

in general it's bad for legibility to use a colour for both the background and foreground at the same time.

[NightMachinery]

Another Solarized Light theme that looks bad:

[raiguard]

One Dark here, looks terrible. Even just being able to change which of the basic 16 colors it uses would be nice!

[f6p]

If terminal uses low contrast color set there isn't much to do I guess.

Other than that I would like to propose utilizing JQ_COLORS variable.

Cheers 🍷

[mortymacs]

Is there any news or information about customizing the color scheme here?

[dmgr]

Just a simple "black & white" and "white & black" color schemes would be nice as a low hanging fruit for a strart.

[Feuermurmel]

This is how it looks in Terminal.app on macOS 12.7.4 with the default "Basic" profile.

[net]

The largest issue is the cursor highlighting, which would be fixed by making it always inverted with the default foreground, like in the status bar.