# Julia 1.6 stacktrace displayed weirdly in iTerm2 with dark color scheme and transparent background

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-stacktrace-displayed-weirdly-in-iterm2-with-dark-color-scheme-and-transparent-background/58554
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question, repl, stacktrace
**Created:** [April 4, 2021, 9:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-stacktrace-displayed-weirdly-in-iterm2-with-dark-color-scheme-and-transparent-background/58554 "2021-04-04T09:22:03Z")
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### Author: ![liuyxpp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/liuyxpp/32/9870_2.png) [@liuyxpp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/liuyxpp)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2021, 9:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-stacktrace-displayed-weirdly-in-iterm2-with-dark-color-scheme-and-transparent-background/58554/1 "2021-04-04T09:22:03Z")

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Please see the screenshots. I can hardly see some parts of each stacktrace [1], [2], [3], etc. How can I fix it? Julia versions before 1.6 have no problem.

 ![Untitled 3](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/1/f/1f17b0efc0b71b1029eda3956cf7c33aaf4649eb.png)  
 ![Untitled 2](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/d/6/d607b8b065264a680d048837b84d84136b10a781.png)

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### Author: ![simeonschaub](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/simeonschaub/32/216566_2.png) [@simeonschaub](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/simeonschaub)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2021, 9:46am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-stacktrace-displayed-weirdly-in-iterm2-with-dark-color-scheme-and-transparent-background/58554/2 "2021-04-04T09:46:02Z")

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You will need to modify/change the color scheme of your terminal emulator. What you are currently seeing as black is actually described by the [ANSI standard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#3-bit_and_4-bit) as “bright black” or gray, but some color schemes can make it a bit hard to read.

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### Author: ![mcabbott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mcabbott/32/6603_2.png) [@mcabbott](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mcabbott)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2021, 10:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-stacktrace-displayed-weirdly-in-iterm2-with-dark-color-scheme-and-transparent-background/58554/3 "2021-04-04T10:41:59Z")

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Note that iTerm has a “minimum contrast” slider to fix theme problems:

 ![113009263-c93e3400-9145-11eb-9c1d-d264218389fb](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/2/0/20848586f9b7acf5a06fb95615204b32b326ff84.png)

(VS code has something similar, by the way.)

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### Author: ![liuyxpp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/liuyxpp/32/9870_2.png) [@liuyxpp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/liuyxpp)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2021, 12:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-stacktrace-displayed-weirdly-in-iterm2-with-dark-color-scheme-and-transparent-background/58554/4 "2021-04-04T12:12:08Z")

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Thanks! Though using minimum contrast as pointed out by @mcabbott can make the text more visible, I find tuning the ANSI colors Bright Black directly is more flexible.