Easy on the eyes.

A one-command setup that makes your whole terminal easy on the eyes, on Windows, macOS and Linux. The terminal, font, shell, git diffs and your Claude Code statusline, all in one calm palette, in warm Gruvbox light or deep Tokyo Night Moon dark. Free & open source.

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Squintless: a harsh default terminal beside the calm Gruvbox-light Squintless terminal

Install

> irm https://sameerzahir.com/sq | iex

Windows (PowerShell 7+). On macOS / Linux: curl -fsSL https://sameerzahir.com/sh | bash. Also on the PowerShell Gallery (Install-Module Squintless) and Scoop.

Idempotent and non-destructive: it backs up every file it touches, and uninstalls clean. Restart your terminal when it's done.

What you get

TerminalA calm scheme in light or dark, for Windows Terminal and kitty / WezTerm / Alacritty / Ghostty / iTerm2. No harsh white, no pure black.
FontJetBrains Mono Nerd Font, from the official release, with crisp HiDPI rendering.
ShellA themed prompt on PowerShell, zsh or bash: oh-my-posh, plus zoxide / eza / bat / lazygit wired in.
Gitgit-delta with a matching syntax theme, so your diffs read as easily as everything else.
Claude CodeA matching Claude Code theme and a curated ccstatusline, shipped as a plugin.
PortablePlain config you can read and copy. The scheme travels to other terminals via iTerm2-Color-Schemes.

Use it inside Claude Code

Squintless is also a tiny Claude Code plugin. Add the marketplace, install it, then run /squintless-setup:

/plugin marketplace add sameer-zahir/squintless
/plugin install squintless@squintless

Why I built this

My eyes hurt. I spend all day in a terminal, so I asked Claude to help me rebuild mine to be genuinely easy on the eyes. Then I realised it was worth sharing with anyone who codes long days. Read the full story →