What are healthy color settings for a terminal window? [closed]

Solution 1:

I recall reading, years (decades?) ago, that the amber on black color scheme of some old monochrome monitors was easier on the eyes than the green or white on black. The RGB values are 185, 128, 0.

Some say black on white is really the easiest on the eyes (it certainly works here), but it just doesn't seem to work in a command window.

Solution 2:

I prefer green on black. But a good 'invention' of mine is setting your root shell's colors to yellow on red; it's absolutely obnoxious, but that's good, if you're trying to force yourself to spend the absolute minimum amount of time as root. This way being lazy and doing everything as root is nearly impossible, as my eyes start to tear with that color scheme within 15 minutes.