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Comment on How to choose colors for your CLI applications (2023)

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I really think we should converge to semantic codes. By example Background is zero, standard is 7, positive / negative, highlight, colored1,2,3 .. with correct defaults, and let the user have a common 8 or 16 colors palette in the terminal for all textmode apps. Imagine having some kind of unified color themes in the terminal.

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