I am running on a Mac with Snow Leopard. Up until now, the default Terminal.app has served me well. I have installed the IR_Black theme mentioned here: http://blog.toddwerth.com/entries/show/6.
However, I noticed in a particular program that the gray font doesn't render. In other words, it's invisible. I ran the script listed here: https://gist.github.com/1099707 and every color shows except for COLOR_BLACK (which makes sense) and COLOR_GRAY.
There are other coworkers on a Windows box that run putty and gray shows up for them just fine on a black background. Is there anyway to get the gray color to show up in Terminal and still have a black background?
(If I used the Basic white-background theme, and run the colors script, then Gray just looks like a bold version of black.)
Best Answer
On Snow Leopard you can install the TerminalColours plugin, which lets you modify the default colours.
On Lion you get a thoroughly updated Terminal.app that lets you do this out of the box and also supports 256 colours by default.