Hi, On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 10:50:23 +0100 Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > It's not a text program's duty to choose the exact shades, it's the terminal > that's supposed to provide something readable. And for the 16 basic colors, > all of them are supposed to be readable against the default background. ... > If you want them to be readable against white, you need to adjust them -- or > preferably, have the terminal provide reasonable defaults if you choose a > reversed color scheme.
I think the proper way to have 16 color support is to use the 'background' colors for output but in bold, so the darker version. On terminals with a black background there should be a setting to have these bold colors shown as the bright variants. This way the color is supported on both backgrounds and one can still use a back and foreground combination from the darker and brighter colors for e.g. status bars etc. Kind regards, Axel
