The default dark colours in most terminal emulators (e.g. gnome-terminal, konsole, PuTTY) don’t work so well for me. In particular I find it hard to read their blue-on-black.
I have found a palette that I like; I think these colours originally came from xterm, but I can’t remember for sure. All I know is that every time I set up a new box I have to dig up a small piece of paper where I’ve written these numbers down (or find a backed up configuration file from an existing machine).
No longer! I’m posting them here so I can easily find them in the future. Maybe they’ll be useful to you too. Without further ado:
- 000000 (0, 0, 0)
- CD0000 (205, 0, 0)
- 00CD00 (0, 205, 0)
- CDCD00 (205, 205, 0)
- 1E90FF (30, 144, 205)
- CD00CD (205, 0, 205)
- 00CDCD (0, 205, 205)
- E5E5E5 (229, 229, 229)
- 4C4C4C (76, 76, 76)
- FF0000 (255, 0, 0)
- 00FF00 (0, 255, 0)
- FFFF00 (255, 255, 0)
- 4682B4 (70, 130, 180)
- FF00FF (255, 0, 255)
- 00FFFF (0, 255, 255)
- FFFFFF (255, 255, 255)
Enjoy!