On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 05:31:09PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote: > framebuffer: #0000aa (standard vga actually, and real vt100 AFAICR) vt100's do not, never have done color. > gnome-terminal#0000aa > Eterm: #0000cc > rxvt: #0000cd > mlterm: #0000e6 > pterm: #0000eb > konsole: #1818b2 (quite different, but still mostly the same blue) > xterm-debian: #1e90ff (drastically different colour, especially > with regards to contrast) The original choice of color for xterm was done using the color names from rgb.txt in 1995. I recall looking (when I started working on it in 1996) to see if there was a better choice, but also preferred using the names (which happened to be different on some platforms). rxvt used numbers rather than names from the outset. konsole and gnome-terminal came around a few years later, and took for granted the improved display hardware. The so-called "pure" colors for blue in this host's rgb.txt are: 0 0 0 black 0 0 128 navy 0 0 139 blue4 0 0 205 blue3 0 0 238 blue2 0 0 255 blue1 A reasonable alternate choice (still improving contrast for blue/black) might for instance be blue2, which is a little brighter (0xee) than the value used by pterm. On the other hand, it might not display well with a blue/white combination on a low-quality display (I recall some issues about that). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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