On Tuesday, 27 June 2017 at 17:11:32 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
The cardinal rule of color selection: NEVER only set the foreground color or the background color alone.
Fun fact: this is why terminal.d's api is `color(fg, bg)` instead of foregroundColor and backgroundColor independently.
But, I actually hate it in terminals when individual lines have different background colors, it doesn't really help legibility since the surrounding clashing color continues to bleed the contrast. That's why terminal.d now has Color.DEFAULT values and I use that for the bg basically every time.
(Instead, as I've said a few times, I changed my terminal *emulator*, yes the display side of it, to adjust the palette based on what background is there. If you tell it to output color 0 on 0, it will actually do gray on black, despite 0 on 7 being black on white. I figured the exact meaning of the palette entries were less important than consistent legibility, and I'm very happy with that. Now *any* program using *any* settings is usable for me, including in sunlight, without excessive eye strain. Big win.)
