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Those colors never looked great, but I remember them being a lot less jarring back then. At least some of the colors weren't pure binary RGB values as claimed

Those colors never looked great, but I remember them being a lot less jarring back then. At least some of the colors weren't pure binary RGB values as claimed in the article. For example, "dark yellow" was closer to a brown #804000 than #808000. Maybe that depended on the graphics card? Otherwise, I'm not sure why many terminal emulators would have gone with a pure dark yellow instead. Also, maybe the overall contrast was lower on CRTs. At least I think the blacks were less dark on early monitors, which might have helped to make the colors look less harsh.

blueflow 4y ago
The yellow/brown thing was a CGA fix: https://www.aceinnova.com/en/electronics/cga-and-the-brown-color-in-ibm-5153-color-display/ https://www.aceinnova.com/en/electronics/cga-and-the-brown-c...
rep_lodsb 4y ago
CGA used 2/3 brightness (#AA) for the primary colors, then added 1/3 gray (#555555) if the intensity bit was set. The exception is that with low intensity, yellow is turned into brown by reducing green to 1/3 (#AA5500). Unfortunately a lot of terminal emulators get it wrong, the normal colors are too dark and the intensified ones are too saturated! I also remember blue being easier to see in the past, but that is likely my eyes getting worse.