Some command line output ignores system foreground color configuration

[jrob]

What You Are Seeing?

When running in a shell with a white background, some text is invisible.

Screenshot:

Actual text:

$ ./build.ps1 --showdescription
Preparing to run build script...
Running build script...
Analyzing build script...
Processing build script...
Installing tools...
Installing addins...
Compiling build script...

Task                          Description
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Restore-NuGet-Packages

What is Expected?

The output should respect the configured foreground colors so that text is visible.

What version of Cake are you using?

Version 0.19.5+Branch.main.Sha.e4c4ad2a949637f89063dc7a90363839b740af2c

Are you running on a 32 or 64 bit system?

64

What environment are you running on? Windows? Linux? Mac?

Windows 10 with the default shell.

How Did You Get This To Happen? (Steps to Reproduce)

Current colors set for the shell

$colors = [Enum]::GetValues( [ConsoleColor] )
$max = ($colors | foreach { "$_ ".Length } | Measure-Object -Maximum).Maximum
foreach( $color in $colors ) {
    Write-Host (" {0,2} {1,$max} " -f [int]$color,$color) -NoNewline
    Write-Host "$color" -Foreground $color
}

Windows powershell properties.

[mcraiha]

With macOS default foreground color is hard to read when terminal is running with white background color

[augustoproiete]

@jrob, this has been fixed with PR #3094 and will be released with Cake v1.1.0

@mcraiha The current color palette of Cake doesn't work well with light backgrounds. We have an issue open to support custom ConsolePalette/ANSI colors which eventually would provide an alternative for the issue you pointed out.

One workaround would be to use the Cake.LightModeConsole.Module, which replaces the default console palette with one suitable for light background colors.

Another alternative which will be available in the next release of Cake (v1.1.0 as of this writing) is the ability to disable colors with an environment variable called NO_COLOR which would be a workaround for devs using light backgrounds until #2976 or something better comes along.

[cake-build-bot]

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version v1.1.0 🎉

The release is available on:

• GitHub Release
• NuGet Package
• Chocolatey Package
• .Net Global Tool

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