Why does Fish shell have dark blue as the default color for directories

Question

Is it just me?

I have just installed fish using brew install fish and I'm using iTerm2.

The color is absolutely unreadable. How do I change it to something nicer?

Answer 1

I realized my mistake was with iTerm and not with Fish.

Press CMD+i with an iTerm window open, then click the Colors tab and set it something nicer.

Not sure why this problem didn't show up before, but it seems like it was triggered by the new Fish installation.

Answer 2

Technically that isn't fish doing the coloring. It's the ls command. However, fish does wrap the command in a ls function which tells the command to color the output and use the colors specified by the dircolors command if it is installed. If you don't want the coloring you can create your own ls function that omits the --color=auto flag. Or you can define your own $LS_COLORS env var to keep from using the colors provided by dircolors.