Skip to content

[Bug]: Improve TUI color contrast for light-background users #38284

@LorinRicker

Description

@LorinRicker

Bug type

Behavior bug (incorrect output/state without crash)

Summary

Description:
As a user with decades of experience preferring white/light backgrounds (dark text on light, per old VDT standards), I find certain colors in OpenClaw TUI (e.g., light orange for emphasis) nearly unreadable due to low contrast. This affects readability, especially for older users with diminishing eyesight or those with vision preferences.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Set terminal to white background.
  2. Run OpenClaw TUI.
  3. Observe low-contrast text (e.g., orange highlights).

Expected behavior

Expected: High-contrast colors adaptable to background (e.g., auto-detect or theme switcher with dark reds/blues instead of lights). Minimum 4.5:1 contrast ratio per WCAG. Also consider configurable font sizes.

Actual behavior

Actual: Washed-out colors on light backgrounds.

OpenClaw version

OpenClaw 2026.3.2 (85377a2)

Operating system

Linux Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS; GNOME terminal v 3.44.0 for GNOME 42; but problem is general for ANSI terminals such as Terminator, tmux, PuTTY, Kitty, etc.

Install method

No response

Logs, screenshots, and evidence

Impact and severity

This is a product usability issue, usually resulting because developers tend to prefer the dark-screen/light&colored text terminal environment, and rarely consider users who prefer or need the "reverse video" light-background/dark-contrast-text environs.

Additional information

No response

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    bugSomething isn't workingbug:behaviorIncorrect behavior without a crash

    Type

    No type
    No fields configured for issues without a type.

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions