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Title: XTerm256 palette
Post by: medusacle on October 13, 2018, 10:13:27 AM
i've created a palette from the 256 colors of the xterm256 palette;

- for the first 16 (which depend on terminal configuration) i've used the default VGA palette
- the others are as usual: a 24-greyscale ramp and 6×6×6 RGB color cube
- had to split it over two pages, because 12×16 wouldn't fit all colors (and could structure it a bit better, now)

https://medusacle.gitlab.io/files/rexpaint/Xterm256A.txt
https://medusacle.gitlab.io/files/rexpaint/Xterm256B.txt

see attached images

i'm using this myself for a terminal roguelike game
but hope it's useful to anyone !
Title: Re: XTerm256 palette
Post by: Kyzrati on October 13, 2018, 06:10:20 PM
Hi medusacle! Thanks for sharing these, I'm sure they'll come in handy for some others. I'll add them to the Resources page with the next update :)
Title: Re: XTerm256 palette
Post by: medusacle on October 14, 2018, 08:47:17 AM
awesome—thanks for writing this wonderful software by the way !

you wouldn't believe what kind of mess i've done throughout the years to get colored ANSI stuff, from horrible VIM plugins to multi-line strings in a certain format, nothing close to WYSIWYG

a few days ago someone told me that this exists and so happy about it
Title: Re: XTerm256 palette
Post by: Kyzrati on October 14, 2018, 04:39:54 PM
Woohoo, glad you found it then :). Back in 2013 I wanted to start doing a lot of ASCII art and tried quite a few other programs out there before realizing none of them were very effective or efficient, so I built REXPaint and fortunately it really only took a couple weeks to get a decent framework with all the basic functionality. Since then it's just been accruing lots of extra bonus features, but I do have plans to eventually expand it with some much bigger updates.