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Don't most terminal themes map colors such that they're all mostly legible? And if not, wouldn't it be trivial to change yellow to an orange or brown?

As a rule, I don't see any reason why a terminal theme should have any color that is illegible on its background. That feels like a problem with the theme more than with the program running on it.



The exception is "true color" output[1]. In supported terminals you can make text any rgb value, regardless of theme.

[1] https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728


Fair. But presumably if you're doing that you're also specifying a good background color.


You should? Yes. You are? Likely not. Developers will pick coliurs that look good on their theme and not even think about overriding the background colour until they get a bug report.




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