How to change the colors of console?

[ok97465]

What steps will reproduce the problem?

Hello. I want the colors of the console.
(Prompt, Error message, ...)
How can I change the colors?

#Spyder version: 5.2.0.dev0(#3cdcfc13e)

Mandatory:

atomicwrites >=1.2.0 : 1.4.0 (OK)
chardet >=2.0.0 : 4.0.0 (OK)
cloudpickle >=0.5.0 : 2.0.0 (OK)
cookiecutter >=1.6.0 : 1.7.2 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111 : 20200713 (OK)
intervaltree >=3.0.2 : 3.1.0 (OK)
IPython >=7.6.0 : 7.27.0 (OK)
jedi >=0.17.2;<0.19.0 : 0.17.2 (OK)
jellyfish >=0.7 : None (OK)
jsonschema >=3.2.0 : 3.2.0 (OK)
keyring >=17.0.0 : 23.1.0 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0 : 6.1.0 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0 : 1.1.0 (OK)
parso >=0.7.0;<0.9.0 : 0.7.0 (OK)
pexpect >=4.4.0 : 4.8.0 (OK)
pickleshare >=0.4 : 0.7.5 (OK)
psutil >=5.3 : 5.8.0 (OK)
pygments >=2.0 : 2.10.0 (OK)
pylint >=2.5.0 : 2.9.6 (OK)
pyls_spyder >=0.4.0 : 0.4.0 (OK)
pylsp >=1.2.2;<1.3.0 : 1.3.0.dev0 (OK)
pylsp_black >=1.0.0 : None (OK)
qdarkstyle =3.0.2 : 3.0.2 (OK)
qstylizer >=0.1.10 : 0.1.10 (OK)
qtawesome >=1.0.2 : 1.0.2 (OK)
qtconsole >=5.1.0 : 5.1.1 (OK)
qtpy >=1.5.0 : 1.10.0 (OK)
rtree >=0.9.7 : 0.9.7 (OK)
setuptools >=49.6.0 : 58.0.4 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6 : 4.2.0 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=2.1.1;<2.2.0 : 2.2.0.dev0 (OK)
textdistance >=4.2.0 : 4.2.1 (OK)
three_merge >=0.1.1 : 0.1.1 (OK)
watchdog >=0.10.3 : 2.1.3 (OK)
xdg >=0.26 : 0.27 (OK)
zmq >=17 : 22.2.1 (OK)

Optional:

cython >=0.21 : 0.29.24 (OK)
matplotlib >=2.0.0 : 3.4.2 (OK)
numpy >=1.7 : 1.21.2 (OK)
pandas >=1.1.1 : 1.3.3 (OK)
scipy >=0.17.0 : 1.7.1 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3 : 1.8 (OK)

[steff456]

Hi @ok97465,

The colors of the console are linked to Spyder's theme, you can change it on Preferences > Appearance > Syntax Highlighting theme. You can either choose one from the list of themes, or change any color by clicking in Edit selected scheme or even create a new one.

Hope this helps! Please let me know if there's anything else you need help with

[ok97465]

In the figure below, "In [3]:" is the color of #00FF00 and "NameError"is the color of #FF0000.

I've been trying to find an option to change these colors, but I'm failed. Could you please explain in more detail?
Thank you.

[ccordoba12]

Hey @ok97465, those colors are hard-coded in IPython and we can't adjust them in Spyder at the moment. However, that will change when IPython 8 is released in a couple of months because then third-party apps could decide what colors to use instead.

[green-slowmoe]

so now that IPython 8 is here, how should one go about homogenizing its colors with the rest of spyder?

[je-santos]

On dark mode it's hard to read the folder names when typingls. It's a very dark blue :(

[shiganai]

Hi, I'm facing the same issue.
Spyder is a good environment to debug with iPython,
so it will be great if we can customize the color scheme

[Ellnz]

I'm also finding it impossible to view the dark blue columns in the console when printing data.

[findlayjy]

Hi @ok97465,

The colors of the console are linked to Spyder's theme, you can change it on Preferences > Appearance > Syntax Highlighting theme. You can either choose one from the list of themes, or change any color by clicking in Edit selected scheme or even create a new one.

Hope this helps! Please let me know if there's anything else you need help with

This doesn't seem to be true for me, running spyder 5.2.2, at least. The iPython theme is frustratingly stubborn, and the dark blue is impossible to read on a dark background.

[ccordoba12]

@findlayjy, are you talking about the colors in tracebacks?

[Aster-the-Med-Stu]

@ccordoba12 No, I think he is referring to running ls in ipython console. The dark blue color is very hard to read. Dunno if ipython console could follow editor's color schematics.

BTW the theme used here is Solarized Dark.

In another word, can we make console's standard color matches the one set in Preference?

[ccordoba12]

Those colors are hard-coded in IPython (the package that powers the console), so they are not easy to change.

@dalthviz, is there any chance we could remap the ANSI colors used for ls on our side?

[dalthviz]

I think that would mean to do something like the handling of the yellow color that was being done over QtConsole and was reverted over jupyter/qtconsole#611 Just in case, as a workaround for the ls color (which strangely seems like doesn't affect Windows 🤔) maybe using the colors magic NoColor option could help. Note, however, that using such option will made all the terminal output to be white. To activate that you can run something like %colors nocolor and to revert it you can run something like %colors linux

Edit: More info on %colors: https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/interactive/magics.html#magic-colors

[ccordoba12]

I think that would mean to do something like the handling of the yellow color that was being done over QtConsole and was reverted over jupyter/qtconsole#611

Ok, things don't seem so simple as I thought.

These are a couple of resources that could help to solve this problem:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14129278/how-do-i-customize-text-color-in-ipython
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47953896/syntax-colors-on-ipython