Terminal colors are different (lighter) after upgrading to macOS Catalina

[ay0o]

• VSCode Version: 1.39.2
• OS Version: macOS Catalina 10.15

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Upgrade to macOS Catalina and notice the color change right away.
2. If you are already on macOS Catalina, open terminal / iTerm and compare with VSCode's terminal.

Images:

VSCode:

iTerm2 / Terminal:

Back in Mojave there was no such difference. VSCode's terminal displayed the same color.

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• VSCode cannot open on macos Catalina (#82302)
• Font rendering issues on macOS Catalina (#82109)

[Tyriar]

The colors the terminal draws is based on the vscode theme. You can try change the renderer to see if that changes the colors https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Terminal-Issues#rendering-problems

[ay0o]

Tried both renderers, neither seem to impact the color. With the dom-based renderer the font looks slightly bigger, but that's all, nothing else changes.

[Tyriar]

@ay0o pretty sure your theme is saying to use that color then? You can set them in settings manually:

[ay0o]

yes @Tyriar , you are right that I can manually force them to match the color I want by manually setting each of them, but this wasn't the behavior prior to the update to macOS Catalina, that's why I opened this ticket.

Before, both VSCode and iTerm2 had the same scheme without manual changes. In either case, I'm closing the ticket as the solution is as simple as:

1. Open iTerm2 / Terminal
2. Copy the color code (in my case, ansi blue and green)
3. Force that setting in VSCode's settings.json