Customizing Appearance

Color Schemes

Settings > Color schemes ships presets (Campbell, One Half Dark, Tango, Solarized). Per-profile scheme sets the palette, and custom schemes are JSON-defined.

Fonts

Cascadia Code is the default with optional ligatures and a built-in powerline (fp) variant for prompt glyphs:

{
  "font": { "face": "Cascadia Code PL", "size": 12 }
}

Background Effects

Set per profile:

{
  "useAcrylic": true,
  "opacity": 90,
  "backgroundImage": "C:\pics\custom.png"
}

Acrylic gives translucent blur (Windows 11/10), while an image can brand the terminal.

Themes and UI

Windows Terminal 1.18+ supports themes that tint the whole UI, and the settings UI supports previewing before saving. Tabs can show icons per profile.

Key Points

• Schemes pin colors per profile.
• Cascadia Code PL adds powerline glyphs.
• Acrylic and opacity give modern blur.
• Themes unify the entire shell window.