@belak Were you imagining that any existing ANSI schemes can work, or that only hand-crafted schemes that very carefully tweaked their colors just right for UI could work? I was imagining just "normal" ANSI and that apps would have to work within that constraint (if they are truly 16 color only)

I was just wondering if we could bootstrap Ansi16 with a whole library of existing 16 color terminal themes like: https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes

IE:

• write the Ansi16 style spec
• bootstrap the library of schemes
• write a template or two
• write the interop (with other style specs)

My original plan for the library of schemes was to do it slowly - start with something like xterm and terminal-app (The wikipedia page for ANSI escape codes has a number of them right there).

The only other one I've used regularly is Hybrid which uses the tomorrow-night palate (with some tweaks), but works better in a terminal.

Hmmmm, if the themes are high quality isn't more better than 2 or 3? I was more asking if there is anything particular about your style guide/design that would prevent normal ANSI themes from being workable...

I'd prefer to start with just a few, and add more once we prove it works well - it's way easier to build a theme when you're focusing on one or two color schemes (usually a light and dark) rather than on 50.