Updated Windows 10 Console Colors for Upcoming Build "Leaked"

Whoops. For the get-go ever time in twenty years, Microsoft is giving its Windows Console a color overhaul. The Control Prompt is finally receiving a newish look later years of developers asking for a change. Windows 10 Preview Build 16257 that is highly expected to be released subsequently today is rumored to bring this overhaul of the legacy color scheme of the Windows Command Prompt.

The news was first spotted by The Verge, apparently published and so deleted by Microsoft earlier today. "In another blockbuster mail service, our Summer 2017 Intern, @craigaloewen unveils a subtle, but important comeback to the Console in Windows x Insider build 16257," this now-deleted post shares.

"The default colour values have been changed to improve legibility of darker colors on modern screens, and to give the Console a more modern await & experience," Craig writes. The legacy blue that has become a niggling difficult to read on modern high-contrast displays is getting a piffling lighter. Even so, Craig added that it'southward not just blue getting a change as the unabridged color scheme has been tweaked.

During the by 20 years, screens & display applied science, dissimilarity ratio, and resolution accept changed significantly, from CRT's through TFT LCD'south to modern-day nano-scale 4K displays.

The legacy default scheme was not built for modernistic displays and does not render equally well on newer high-contrast LCD displays. This is particularly apparent with deeply saturated darker colors like blue.

The new default colors volition modernize the look of the Windows Console and make it more coinciding with other final experiences, such as the integrated terminal in VSCode.

Excited? Well, we expect to come across the new Windows 10 Insider Preview build 16257 someday at present. All the same, you lot won't see this Windows Console color alter after upgrading to the latest build as you will accept to clean install information technology. Microsoft has promised (on this cached page, so we tin't say if it'south the official give-and-take yet) that information technology will shortly be publishing a tool that will help users apply this new scheme and a choice of culling color schemes to your Windows Console.