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The ASCII color codes for a terminal are in a 6x6x6 space. That’s 216. Does that explain the number of web-safe colors?
by geophile 5y ago
The ASCII color codes for a terminal are in a 6x6x6 space. That’s 216. Does that explain the number of web-safe colors?
- bitwize 5y agoThe same space is used for the web colors, but I don't know if there's a causal connection there.
- duskwuff 5y agoNo. 256-color mode wasn't added to XTerm until July 1999: https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_111 https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_111