Powershell Integrated Console colors wrong

The Powershell IC doesn’t display certain background and foreground colors the same as the ISE and CMD.Exe shell.

Main issue is a Background color of BLACK shows up as white, GRAY shows up as dark gray, DARK GRAY shows up as gray, and WHITE shows up as a third gray.

Also, when foreground and background are the same color, the IC defaults to white on white.

Simple script to test

$FGcolors = [enum]::GetValues([System.ConsoleColor])
$BGcolors = [enum]::GetValues([System.ConsoleColor])
$size = 10 

Write-Host "".PadRight($Size).Substring(0,$size) -NoNewline
Foreach ($BGcolor in $BGcolors) {
    Write-Host $BGcolor.ToString().PadRight($Size).Substring(0,$size)  -BackgroundColor $BGcolor -NoNewline
}
Write-Host 
Foreach ($FGcolor in $FGcolors) {
    Write-Host  $FGColor.ToString().PadRight($Size).Substring(0,$size) -foreground $FGColor -NoNewline

    Foreach ($BGcolor in $BGcolors)
    {
         Write-Host   $FGColor.ToString().PadRight($Size).Substring(0,$size) -background $BGColor -foreground $FGColor -nonewline
    }
    Write-Host 
}

Powershell IC

Powershell ISE

CMD.EXE running Powershell

System Details

• Operating system name and version: Win 7
• VS Code version: 1.12.2
• PowerShell extension version: 1.1.0
• Output from $PSVersionTable:

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      5.1.14409.1005
PSEdition                      Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion                   10.0.14409.1005
CLRVersion                     4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion              3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1

[NemoStein]

I don’t know if this is a related issue, but I’m having some trouble with colors too…

Powershell

VS Code

It may be a problem with Pshazz (it works fine on powershell, though).

[confusingbits]

I think I may have found a work around for the color formatting issues with the integrate console on windows. I have tried changing or resetting colors of powershell to no avail, but enabling the ‘Use legacy console (requires relaunch)’ checkbox appears to resolve my ongoing issues with an unreadable integrated terminal due to what appears to be improper background colors for text.

To reach the settings, open a powershell, and right click the title window and select properties > options. Enable ‘Use legacy console (requires relaunch)’. (Restarting VScode and/or all open Powershells may be needed. I don’t know.)

After enabling this, my vscode integrated terminal appears work exactly as expected now after months of incorrect formatting.