VS Code terminal (selected) text background color

Question

Working with VS code's terminal is just fine but somehow (all) text is hardly readable without peeking my nose to the screen. Anybody knows a setting to change this?

EDIT This isn't like this question because that deals with the overall theming of VS Code instead of purely the colors in the terminal window. Although a link in a comment seems to point out that it is no longer possible to style the terminal colors "outside of an applied theme..."?!

Still no luck...

Answer 1

"terminal.selectionBackground": #ffee7f6e is the setting used to control the highlight color for the vscode built in terminal. There is no foreground option so you'll need to use a value with some opacity.

Example settings.json

{
    "workbench.colorCustomizations": {
        "terminal.selectionBackground": "#ffee7f6e"
    }
}

Answer 2

Use these options inside workbench.colorCustomizations:

"terminal.foreground": "#ffffff",
"terminal.ansiBlack": "#000000",
"terminal.ansiRed": "#c23621",
"terminal.ansiGreen": "#25bc24",
"terminal.ansiYellow": "#adad27",
"terminal.ansiBlue": "#492ee1",
"terminal.ansiMagenta": "#d338d3",
"terminal.ansiCyan": "#33bbc8",
"terminal.ansiWhite": "#cbcccd",
"terminal.ansiBrightBlack": "#818383",
"terminal.ansiBrightRed": "#fc391f",
"terminal.ansiBrightGreen": "#31e722",
"terminal.ansiBrightYellow": "#eaec23",
"terminal.ansiBrightBlue": "#5833ff",
"terminal.ansiBrightMagenta": "#f935f8",
"terminal.ansiBrightCyan": "#14f0f0",
"terminal.ansiBrightWhite": "#e9ebeb",

HERE is more info about color customization in Visual Studio Code.

You should avoid using any background settings as they interfere with some theme's background settings for terminal panel (VSCode 1.21.1).