Mac OS X Terminal.app Solarized Color Settings Installation: Hack color support for Snow Leopard required or not? 1. Install SIMBL from: http://www.culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php 2. Install updated "TerminalColors" SIMBL plugin https://github.com/timmfin/terminalcolours http://github.com/timmfin/terminalcolours/raw/master/TerminalColours-SL-64bit.zip ( see blog post here for details: http://www.byteengine.net/custom-colors-in-snow-leopard-terminal-64-bit ) The above runs in both 64 bit and 32 bit mode. If you have trouble using it, you can also try the older 32-bit mode only TerminalColors plugin below: http://blog.fallingsnow.net/2009/08/28/fixing-colors-in-terminal-app-on-10-6/ http://cloud.github.com/downloads/evanphx/terminalcolours/TerminalColours-SL.tar.gz and open in 32 bit mode cf https://github.com/evanphx/terminalcolours