[Joey Hess] > This is the reason for the #rrggbb=i options of ppmtolss16. Color 7 is > used for the foreground of plain text by syslinux, so you make white or > some other nice color use that color slot, and make black use the slot > for color 15, which is used for the background. If you use colorised > text in your syslinux text, you can also assign suitable colors to those > slots.
Right. I set foreground to white and background to black, and will see how that looks. I guess it would be better if the image itself had black background, but I'll leave that part to someone with gimp skills.
