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Color standards for terminal emulators

10 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 2 stories, 8 comments · first 2019-06-28 · latest 2026-02-18

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  1. …From what I know all modern terminal emulators in all operating systems support it now. [1] https://github.com/termstandard/colors
    comment by xvilka · 2026-02-18 · in Terminals should generate the 256-color palette
  2. …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.
    comment by neomantra · 2024-11-24 · in Show HN: Rebels in the sky – Terminal game about space pirates
  3. 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…
    comment by JdeBP · 2023-05-24 · in Rio: Terminal app built over WebGPU, WebAssembly and Rust
  4. 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…
    comment by chrismorgan · 2022-08-04 · in Things I've learned building a modern TUI framework
  5. Will it support "true colors" (16M colors)[1][2]? [1] https://github.com/termstandard/colors [2] https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
    comment by xvilka · 2020-09-01 · in Modernizing the OpenBSD Console
  6. …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/
    comment by xvilka · 2020-02-14 · in Windows Terminal Preview 0.9
  7. …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…
    comment by xvilka · 2019-10-26 · in Commas in big numbers everywhere: An OpenType adventure
  8. …[5] https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat [6] https://github.com/vifm/vifm [7] https://github.com/termstandard/colors/
    comment by xvilka · 2019-06-28 · in Without a GUI: How to Live Entirely in a Terminal