Hardcoding any color than base16 is usually a poor choice. It should be up to the user to use any other color. And colors should be semantic. If you don’t have

Hardcoding any color than base16 is usually a poor choice. It should be up to the user to use any other color. And colors should be semantic. If you don’t have any theming ability, just use reverse video to indicate selected state. My current pet peeve is cli tools using ansi codes for progress bar. And with very poor detection of terminals.