Yep, the venerable 16-color palette is at least as old as CGA: [1]. And the "annoying" dark blue is not even #00F, it's approximately #00A (and similarly to the

Yep, the venerable 16-color palette is at least as old as CGA: [1]. And the "annoying" dark blue is not even #00F, it's approximately #00A (and similarly to the other "dark" colors; the "bright" colors are roughly #55F etc.) CGA text mode character cells comprise 16 bits, with 8 bits encoding the character, and 3+1+3+1 bits the foreground color, foreground intensity, background color, and blink state respectively. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter#Color_palette https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter#Color_p...