Color

Terminals reliably recognize the 8 basic ANSI colors. There are also bright versions of each of these colors that you can use, but less reliably.

Things to note

• Background color is available but we haven’t taken advantage of it yet.
• Some terminals do not reliably support 256-color escape sequences.
• Users can customize how their terminal displays the 8 basic colors, but that’s opt-in (for example, the user knows they’re making their greens not green).
• Only use color to enhance meaning, not to communicate meaning.

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Last edited by lukasoppermann on June 21, 2022