Personalization Add and Remove Custom Color Schemes for Windows Terminal in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to add, edit, and remove custom color schemes in Windows Terminal for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Windows Terminal is a modern host application for the command-line shells you already love, like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and bash (via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)). Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and the ability to create your own themes and customize text, colors, backgrounds, and shortcuts.

Windows Terminal lets you define your own color schemes, either by using the built-in preset schemes, or by creating your own custom scheme from scratch.

A color scheme is a theme of colors applied to the foreground, background, cursor, and selection background in Windows Terminal.

You can create your own custom color scheme to add and be available to set as a default color scheme for profiles in Windows Terminal.

You can delete any added custom color schemes you no longer want to remove them.







1 Open Windows Terminal.

2 Click/tap on the down arrow button on the top bar, and click/tap on Settings Ctrl + , (comma). (see screenshot below)


3 Click/tap on Color schemes in the left pane, and click/tap on the Add new button at the top. (see screenshot below)


4 Under Colors, click/tap on a color tile you want to change the color of. (see screenshot below)


5 Perform an action below to select or enter a color you want, and click/tap anywhere outside the custom color pane to close it. (see screenshot below)

• Select and adjust a color at the top of the custom color pane.
• Select RGB in the drop menu, and enter a RGB color code you want.
• Select HSV in the drop menu, and enter a HSV color code you want.

6 Repeat steps 4 and 5 above for any other colors you want to change until finished

7 Click/tap on Rename color scheme to expand it open. Type a name (ex: "Color Scheme 13") you want for this custom color scheme, and click/tap on the Accept rename (check) button to apply. (see screenshot below)


8 Click/tap on Set as default if you want to apply this custom color scheme as default to all shell profiles in Windows Terminal. (see screenshot below)


9 Click/tap on the Save button at the bottom to apply. (see screenshot below)

You will not be able to edit and change built-in color schemes.

1 Open Windows Terminal.

2 Click/tap on the down arrow button on the top bar, and click/tap on Settings Ctrl + , (comma). (see screenshot below)


3 Click/tap on Color schemes in the left pane, and click/tap on a custom color scheme (ex: "Color Scheme 13") you want to edit in the right pane. (see screenshot below)


4 Under Colors, click/tap on a color tile you want to change the color of. (see screenshot below)


5 Perform an action below to select or enter a color you want, and click/tap anywhere outside the custom color pane to close it. (see screenshot below)

• Select and adjust a color at the top of the custom color pane.
• Select RGB in the drop menu, and enter a RGB color code you want.
• Select HSV in the drop menu, and enter a HSV color code you want.

6 Repeat steps 4 and 5 above for any other colors you want to change until finished

7 If you want to rename this color scheme, click/tap on Rename color scheme to expand it open. Type a name (ex: "Color Scheme 13") you want for this custom color scheme, and click/tap on the Accept rename (check) button to apply. (see screenshot below)


8 Click/tap on Set as default if you want to apply this custom color scheme as default to all shell profiles in Windows Terminal. (see screenshot below)


9 Click/tap on the Save button at the bottom to apply. (see screenshot below)






1 Open Windows Terminal.

2 Click/tap on the down arrow button on the top bar, and click/tap on Settings Ctrl + , (comma). (see screenshot below)


3 Click/tap on Color schemes in the left pane, and click/tap on a custom color scheme (ex: "Color Scheme 13") you want to delete in the right pane. (see screenshot below)


4 Click/tap on the red Delete color scheme button at the bottom, and click/tap on Yes, delete color scheme to confirm. (see screenshot below)

Built-in color schemes will not have a Delete color scheme button available.

5 Click/tap on the Save button at the bottom to apply. (see screenshot below)



That's it,
Shawn Brink