> w3m just ignores colours, while eww applies the ones it recognizes, though in newer versions it can be disabled Agreed! And to do so: (setq shr-use-colors n

> w3m just ignores colours, while eww applies the ones it recognizes, though in newer versions it can be disabled Agreed! And to do so: (setq shr-use-colors nil) Edit: Colors in eww come from the Simple HTML Renderer (shr.el), so you need to disable its respective variable.