Gradient incorrect on light terminal themes

[cspotcode]

There's not really a fix for this other than to avoid gradients. On light terminal themes, the gradient should fade from black to white, not white to black. It ends up appearing like this:

[arcanis]

Since absolutely every reasonable person uses a dark terminal theme it should be fine

More seriously, the visual glitch is fairly minor, so I'd prefer to avoid removing gradients just for that - I guess there isn't an environment variable describing whether the terminal is light / dark ? 😅

[arcanis]

Interestingly, on my terminal (iTerm2) there's still a little visual glitch mid-way:

[romdej]

There's another issue concerning non-black-and-white terminals: the gradient color doesn't consistently match the color of the header line.

Here's how it renders in Jetbrains IDE terminals (default theme):

Here's how it renders in Jetbrains IDE terminals (colored theme);

And this is what it could render on colored terminal without the gradient:

While this might not be sufficient for removing the gradients, it's good to known that this issue also exists.