Sounds like I should try this together with ametameric, which I've been using since I have protanomaly

[0] https://ctx.graphics/terminal/ametameric/

The problem with this change is that it breaks setups for people who have already adjusted their color schemes to work with the 256-color palette as it is. It's now essentially double-adjusted.

(…and people wonder why I use gvim rather than vim…)

Kde has their own palette, and I hate it, the colours are all wrong, and the scheme is fugly... I usually set it to "Linux default" and hope its good enough to read

I see TFA mentions Solarized. I've been using Solarized light for longer than I can remember, even on Windows where I can (eg VSCode), and it goes a long way to making my eyes happy. I share the irritation with dark blue on black and can't stand dark mode (maybe I'm now old and no longer 31337 ... alas ...)

For my ncurses brothers, saw this but have not used yet: https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses

For my plan9 brothers: one day we will have a new acme, written in common lisp and displaying all the correct colors, and lo it will be glorious.

We should define a set of base colors for terminal apps that are used for themes so that we have a common set of colors for all term apps. Text, background, borders, hilight, muted then let the terminal set its theme.

Wild, potentially stupid thought: why couldn't a terminal let users supply a user.css like browsers? They'd only have to support the small subset of text styles.

This definitely seems like a sensible starting option to generate 256 colours from a custom set of 8 (and then let the really pedantic users fiddle with the extended set). I would presume for "standard" themes these values would be pregenerated and adjusted slightly if needed.

Color schemes voluntarily added by the user to an app like vim, great.

All the more reason for developers to keep the app itself responsive to the user’s environment by default.

Don’t bake in elaborate visual choices. It’s a usability thing first and a style thing somewhere much farther down the list.

Keep it simple from the factory. Don’t get in the way of customization. Let the user’s environment do the work of adapting it to the user.

This new palette should be behind a new control code, that should sort out the issue of opting in.

Should call it Super Terminal Entertainment System.