Claude Code Conversation Colors — Design skill for Claude Code

Claude Code Conversation Colors

Customize the text colors in your Claude Code conversations. Pick one color for your text and a different color for Claude's text so you can instantly tell who said what. Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows.


Why claude-colors?

• Survives Claude Code updates — no patching, no hacking internals, nothing to break
• Terminal-level color control — works with Claude Code's own rendering, not against it
• Zero dependencies — single binary, no npm packages, no config files to manage
• One command to reapply — if an update resets your colors, claude-colors --reapply restores them instantly

What it does

• Visual color picker to customize your text color and Claude's text color independently
• Applies colors automatically — open a new terminal tab and they're live
• Toggle the gray message background on or off
• Settings persist across all new Claude Code sessions
• Rerun anytime to change your conversation colors

Install

macOS / Linux (curl)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ProducerGuy/claude-code-conversation-colors/main/install.sh | sh

macOS (Homebrew)

brew tap ProducerGuy/claude-code-conversation-colors
brew install claude-colors

Manual download

Download the binary for your platform from [Releases](https://github.com/ProducerGuy/claude-code-conversation-colors/releases):

Platform	Binary
Mac (Apple Silicon)	claude-colors-macos-arm64
Mac (Intel)	claude-colors-macos-x64
Linux (x64)	claude-colors-linux-x64
Windows (x64)	claude-colors-windows-x64.exe

After downloading:

chmod +x claude-colors-macos-arm64
./claude-colors-macos-arm64

Usage

Run the tool:

claude-colors

A color picker opens with two panels — one for your text