Anyone in a bright environment, will subconsciously compensate with brighter display luminance - and this problem isn't as problematic. But if you're in a subdued environment, with the backlight in the 10-15% of max luminance realm, it's unworkable.

Actually, with a glossy screen, I suspect most anyone is going to run into this problem regardless of the brightness of their display. 

The luminance of incidental veiling glare (the on-screen reflection of objects that are not light sources) competes with the luminance of this red text. About the only way you'd avoid this problem with a glossy screen is if everything you're wearing, sitting on, and surrounded by is moderately dark. Or in a pitch black room.

You may also count the white text beside the dark red on the black background. And as said, this is the default Workstation Fedora 32 Beta fresh installation, no modification done in themes, colors, anything. This is the experience out of the box. Other spins can have different colors (like the light theme/terminal).

Still, forcing colors in the terminal this way may look fancy, but if it's not possible to follow user's theme, then it's better to stay usable, than fancy. Just my opinion.

By the way, I prefer light theme, but dark terminal. People sometimes prefer everything light or everything dark.

I have to say I quite like the new dnf colors, with the exception of red (removing packages). The red text is almost unreadable in most dark themes (including the system one). The purple color for search results and green color when installing packages looks fine (especially if you enable "show bold text in bright colors" in gnome-terminal, which is unfortunately not the default). See the screenshots attached below.

I wonder why search results and to-be-installed packages are in bold, but to-be-removed packages are not? Perhaps making the red bold, as is purple and green, would improve the readability considerably? I don't know how to test it, can somebody prepare a scratch build?

Alternatively, the solution could be to set both text foreground and text background to achieve the desired readability. But the output might not be that aesthetically pleasing under different color themes.

Created attachment 1673059 [details]
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Created attachment 1673060 [details]
bright colors

"show bold text in bright colors" enabled in gnome-terminal

I removed 'dim' modifier and that makes the text more readable.
PR: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/libdnf/pull/901

Dan, you can make a scratch build so that we can assess the change? (And ideally a second build that makes everything bold as well?)

This really needs to get stable before F32 Final release, if at all possible. Thanks!

The colored package name in "dnf info $package" is also nearly unreadable

FEDORA-2020-68aa5586ed has been submitted as an update to Fedora 32. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-68aa5586ed

FEDORA-2020-68aa5586ed has been pushed to the Fedora 32 testing repository.
In short time you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2020-68aa5586ed`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-68aa5586ed

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

(In reply to Fedora Update System from comment #10)
> FEDORA-2020-68aa5586ed has been submitted as an update to Fedora 32.
> https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-68aa5586ed

Red color is now better readable. (Bold red might work even better, but regular red seems sufficient).

Can this please go stable soon? So that F32 users are not badly surprised.

FEDORA-2020-68aa5586ed has been pushed to the Fedora 32 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.