A note to any developers writing console applications, please please <i>please</i> don't use RGB values in your terminal colour -- only use the 8 base colours plus highlight. RGB values prevent your users terminal from using the custom colour palettes your users might define (and like this site helps you to create). Aside from being a little annoying, it can cause genuine usability problems for some groups of people who use custom palettes:<p>- for visual impairment reasons (eg high contrast colours)<p>- or to differentiate different servers (eg different background colours for dev or prod servers)<p>- or have less contrasting colours to reduce eye strain (eg the Solarized colour schemes)<p>- might suffer from colour blindness so pick colours that contrast better with their condition<p>- or even just those that prefer a white or other non-black backgrounds for readability reasons (eg they might be dyslexic and find a non-black background or different shades of text easier to read).<p>I do fall into two of those categories and run into this issue a lot since there is a trend these days for developers to hard code colour values into their applications.<p>Equally, some developers use the "you can select a custom colour map - I just define a pretty default" argument and while that's slightly better, the best option would be still to default to the standard 8 colours (or the default unformatted text) and let users <i>opt into</i> RGB values if they wish. This will save your users from constantly having to define the same colour palettes in every application.