# REPL text colors for white background console

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/repl-text-colors-for-white-background-console/49999
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question, repl
**Created:** [November 11, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/repl-text-colors-for-white-background-console/49999 "2020-11-11T19:38:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![rafael.guerra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rafael.guerra/32/216610_2.png) [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/repl-text-colors-for-white-background-console/49999/1 "2020-11-11T19:38:26Z")

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My Win10 Julia 1.5.2 REPL has white background and the default light yellow text (_ex: ?help, matching parentheses highlighted, etc._) cannot be read. Is there a way to change this color (_ex: to cyan_)? I am using a [Git bash shell](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-julia-on-git-bash/24413) and [OhMyREPL.jl](https://kristofferc.github.io/OhMyREPL.jl/latest/). Thank you. ![Julia_REPL_light_yellow_on_white_bkgrd](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/1/2/127fd92844abdd26cdc940fe7a944d03d34d13fb.png)

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### Author: ![rafael.guerra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rafael.guerra/32/216610_2.png) [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2020, 7:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/repl-text-colors-for-white-background-console/49999/2 "2020-11-12T07:43:17Z")

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I am sorry, as this is well covered in the Julia’s REPL documentation. It suffices to add the following lines of code to the **startup.jl** file:

```julia
function customize_colors(repl)
    repl.help_color = Base.text_colors[:cyan]
end
atreplinit(customize_colors)

```

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### Author: ![kristoffer.carlsson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kristoffer.carlsson/32/22_2.png) [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2020, 7:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/repl-text-colors-for-white-background-console/49999/3 "2020-11-12T07:56:37Z")

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You might also want to consider tweaking your color scheme a bit so that the standard colors are more visible since e.g. yellow might be used in other places (like `@warn`). However, for `@warn` you could set `ENV["JULIA_WARN_COLOR"] = "cyan"`:

![bild](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/4/a/4ac3fcfaac1e9121f2f90f07c46a6ea196a0a6ff.png)

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### Author: ![rafael.guerra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rafael.guerra/32/216610_2.png) [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2020, 8:02am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/repl-text-colors-for-white-background-console/49999/4 "2020-11-12T08:02:09Z")

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@kristoffer.carlsson thank you for this. Also found useful to add following [OhMyREPL](https://kristofferc.github.io/OhMyREPL.jl/latest/features/bracket_highlighting/#Bracket-highlighting) command in **startup.jl** in order to highlight the matching brackets:

```julia
OhMyREPL.Passes.BracketHighlighter.setcrayon!(Crayon(background = :cyan))

```