Thank you for your request.
I think there are the following choices:

• change from BrightWhite to Foreground color by default
• set background color to black by default ( and add background color configuration )

I think the second choice is better because the same view can be provided to any background color.
What do you think?

An ad-hoc workaround would be disabling colors using procs -c disable

Well, I suppose using foreground would be the most user-friendly choice. Maybe using Bold color would keep BrightWhite for most people with dark themes.

Think about a tool that would change your background to white because that's the developer preference. I'm not sure you would like it. Especially setting a background different from terminal background is usually just ugly as it looks as if you highlighted the text.

The best scenario would be able to detect if the terminal uses a light or dark theme and automatically apply the correct color setting, but I don't know if it's only possible.

OK. I'll add auto detection of background color.
Some tools ( ex. vim/emacs ) detect the color on some terminals.

Now I'm working on https://github.com/dalance/termbg.

If there was at least a simple switch for light mode as well, that'd be swell.

Especially similar to bat:

# .zshrc
alias bat="bat --theme=\$(defaults read -globalDomain AppleInterfaceSty  │ le &> /dev/null && echo default || echo GitHub)"

Somewhat off topic but being able to choose a config would be nice too. I use a daemon to change colorschemes at sunrise and sunset on linux. CLI programs that support this are great because I can place a script in ~/.local/bin/ with the same name of the file that chooses the conf based on time.

Sorry it took so long.
I added automatic theme detection, and released v0.11.0.

By default, dark/light theme is selected automatically.
If detection failed, you can specify theme by --theme option.

If you customized color by config file, some changes are required.
For example,

-style = "Black"
+style = "Black|White"

Please see for the detailed information:
https://github.com/dalance/procs#color-list

@dalance Hi, I tried the latest procs but the command column is still in grey color.

Would you mind update that part?

Thank you!

I forgot to apply light theme to default config.
I fixed it, and released v0.11.3.