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Color standards for terminal emulators

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> vim with 256 colors I recommend to check out the 16 million colors; Windows Terminal, tmux, and [neo]vim - all support it out of the box (assuming you use versions recent…

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xvilka·Feb 18, 2026

Just use direct color mode (24bit, "true color")[1] and there will be no need for a palette. > Fewer terminals support truecolor. From what I know all modern terminal emulators in all operating systems support it now. [1] https://github.com/termstandard/colors

In Terminals should generate the 256-color palette

nkjoep·May 5, 2025Submission

Terminal Colors

11 points · Open discussion

neomantra·Nov 24, 2024

I explored this more. Does Rebels require TrueColor? I think that's what the problem is, Apple Terminal doesn't support it (https://github.com/termstandard/colors?tab=readme-ov-file#no...). It works fine in Kitty.

In Show HN: Rebels in the sky – Terminal game about space pirates

JdeBP·May 24, 2023

Did anyone actually send Apple a memo? At https://github.com/termstandard/colors#not-supporting-trueco... there are pointers to where people have asked, when they have. There's nothing for Terminal.App. (That's the big push that I mentioned. Going since January 2014.)

In Rio: Terminal app built over WebGPU, WebAssembly and Rust

chrismorgan·Aug 4, 2022

I finally found a decent source of information: https://github.com/termstandard/colors The most obvious case of missing support is macOS’s Terminal.app. Years ago I imagine you could theoretically at least query the colours by some side channel, but sandboxing will doubtless have prevented that. And maybe it does support the querying, which to my mind is the more important of the two pieces of functionality when it comes to accessibility.

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todsacerdoti·Apr 8, 2022Submission

Color Standards for Terminal Emulators

15 points · Open discussion

xvilka·Sep 1, 2020

Will it support "true colors" (16M colors)[1][2]? [1] https://github.com/termstandard/colors [2] https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728

In Modernizing the OpenBSD Console

xvilka·Feb 14, 2020Recommendation phrase

> vim with 256 colors I recommend to check out the 16 million colors; Windows Terminal, tmux, and [neo]vim - all support it out of the box (assuming you use versions recent enough). See more at my infamous "truecolor" list[1]. Or an example[2] of such a condiguration. [1] https://github.com/termstandard/colors/ [2] https://tomlankhorst.nl/iterm-tmux-vim-true-color/

In Windows Terminal Preview 0.9

xvilka·Oct 26, 2019

Interesting article! Time to start a new crusade, I guess like I did for True Colors[1], and BiDirectional[2] text. This time for a better font shaping support. If you have ready tests it would help a lot. Personally, I am waiting for ligatures support to be merged[3] in alacritty terminal emulator. Update: I started a list[4] of terminal emulators supporting it and not. [1] https://github.com/termstandard/colors [2] https://gist.github.com/XVilka/a0e49e1c65370ba11c17 [3] https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/pull/2677 [4] https://gist.github.com/XVilka/070ed8b1c1186097cad65ef492201...

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xvilka·Jun 28, 2019

Elinks was still quite active[1] until 2 years ago any contributions were stopped. For spreadsheets there is sc-im. For presentations in terminal there are termimad (in Rust)[3], mdp[4], and patat[5]. For files management vifm[6] is the best one, if you got used to Vim already. And one more important thing - don't forget to setup true colors[7] in your terminal. [1] https://repo.or.cz/elinks.git/shortlog [2] https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im [3] https://github.com/Canop/termimad [4] https://github.com/visit1985/mdp [5] https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat [6] https://github.com/vifm/vifm [7] https://github.com/termstandard/colors/

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