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This is a cool deep dive into terminal standards and their footguns but... not sure why? Unless you're showing pictures in your terminal, why would you want tr
by jedberg 3y ago
This is a cool deep dive into terminal standards and their footguns but... not sure why?
Unless you're showing pictures in your terminal, why would you want true color and the overhead that introduces? If you're just doing a status bar on a black background, your eye won't really see the difference between FF0000 and FF1515 (which I picked because the next 16 bit color is FF3333 which you can already barely tell the difference from).
I'm just saying I'm not sure I would want that much color choice, it would just give me anxiety about picking the right color!
- spudlyo 3y ago> I'm just saying I'm not sure I would want that much color choice, it would just give me anxiety about picking the right color! Developers of themes for Emacs often target the GUI first, where 24-bit color is the default. If you're a hardcore terminal Emacs user (and there are many legit reasons for this) you're stuck by default with 256 colors, and the themes just don't look right due to having to map the carefully chosen colors to the nearest color in the 256 color palette.
- chadaustin 3y agoExactly correct. Loading solarized in 256-color emacs shows just how poorly the (carefully-selected) Solarized colors map onto the xterm-256color palette.
- bhaak 3y agoIt clearly depends on what you do but having more colors is nice. Even if 256 colors are available it's not enough. The palette of the 256 colors is gruesome. You can clearly see that a technical person without any knowledge of color theory designed it.