Survey of terminal palettes: DIR_COLORS edition
A quick run through of how various GNOME terminal palettes look like with the 8-color+bold DIR_COLORS file shipped with coreutils and used by many Linux distributions. Tango is a fairly light value but low saturation palette. The light background is an odd off-white shade that reduces contrast. When the “Show bold text in bright colors” option is enabled, bright cyan and bright green over the light background have minimal contrast. When using a dark background, the palette gives reasonable results,…