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The cause is simpler than this article makes it out to be. Older displays had pretty narrow gamuts so very saturated colors washed out to something more legible
by hedgehog 4y ago
The cause is simpler than this article makes it out to be. Older displays had pretty narrow gamuts so very saturated colors washed out to something more legible and the crude palette construction was not much of a problem back then.
- marcosdumay 4y agoYes, and by the time displays were able to reproduce colors with any reasonable fidelity, every sensible application changed those codes to represent some color that reflected what a person would see on a bad monitor. The author is just using a terminal with non-sensible defaults (on way more things than color palette), but tries to pin the flaw into everything else (from nethack to our eyes), instead of putty.