Output is Black on Black in VS Code

[eightbit]

Thanks so much for providing this great tool!

Describe the bug

When I run auto build in VS Code, much of the output is almost the same black color as the background of the terminal. After terminating the server, invoking 'Crtl-C' a couple of times is required to restore the default color to the terminal prompt.

To Reproduce

Run the code: sphinx-autobuild . --port 8020 _build/html

Expected behavior

Expect the terminal output text to be default color - almost white.

Environment

• VS Code 1.54.1
• Python Version [e.g. 3.8.5]:
• Win 10 - 10.0.19041

[pradyunsg]

This is not related to this tool itself, but rather the colors are controlled by your VS Code theme: this theme is merely telling the terminal to "show this as cyan/blue etc", and your VS Code configuration is presenting that as a color with really low contrast.

Further, since this issue was filed, VS Code has fixed this on their end by enforcing minimum contrast on the integrated terminal by default: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/terminal/appearance#_minimum-contrast-ratio