Re: What is the best way to handle LS_COLORS ?

[Tim Allen]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:35:35PM -0500, Bryan Christ wrote:
> I read both of your replies. Thank you. Helpful as always! So just
> to clarify... it's a pretty safe assumption that the palette is the
> default xterm-color256 palette? Would that be nestled in the xterm
> source code by chance?

It probably is, but a web search for "xterm 256 palette" will dig up the
goods. For example:

    https://jonasjacek.github.io/colors/
    https://github.com/sindresorhus/xterm-colors

It's pretty simple to generate algorithmically:

  - 8 standard colours (dim)
  - 8 standard colours (bright)
  - 216 colours forming a 6×6×6 colour cube, where the value of each
    channel comes from the set (0x00, 0x5f, 0x87, 0xaf, 0xd7, 0xff).
  - 24 colours, the middle steps of a 26-step gradient from black to
    white (absolute black and absolute white can be found in the colour
    cube, they don't need to be in the greyscale gradient too)

Tim.