February 7, 2009 •

Terminal Colors

for Editing Text Against Dark Background

In order to optimize text for editing against a dark background, use these colors. Colors were selected to balance three things: (1) readable against black, (2) different from each other, (3) similar to "standard" ANSI colors so they are familiar.

ANSI	RGB	Value	Value	RGB	ANSI
0 / Black	`0 0 0`	`#000000`	`#555555`	`85 85 85`	Bold Black / 8
1 / Red	`255 0 0`	`#FF0000`	`#FFAAAA`	`255 170 170`	Bold Red / 9
2 / Green	`0 225 0`	`#00E100`	`#AAFFAA`	`170 255 170`	Bold Green / 10
3 / Yellow	`255 190 3`	`#FFBE03`	`#FFFFAA`	`255 255 170`	Bold Yellow / 11
4 / Blue	`106 106 255`	`#6A6AFF`	`#AAAAFF`	`170 170 255`	Bold Blue / 12
5 / Magenta	`255 0 255`	`#FF00FF`	`#FFAAFF`	`255 170 255`	Bold Magenta / 13
6 / Cyan	`0 255 255`	`#00FFFF`	`#AAFFFF`	`170 255 255`	Bold Cyan / 14
7 / White	`170 170 170`	`#AAAAAA`	`#FFFFFF`	`255 255 255`	Bold White / 15