Yesterday, I was thinking about how long it took me to find a terminal colorscheme I was mostly happy with. I asked people on Mastodon about their issues with terminal colors and got many interesting responses. One common complaint was "blue on black" being hard to read. I use a modified Solarized theme for my terminal, which I'm very happy with. Some newer tools like fd and bat have theme support, which can help with contrast issues. I also mentioned the "minimum contrast" feature in some terminals, which automatically adjusts colors for better contrast. Other issues include TERM being set to the wrong thing, picking "good" colors, making nethack/mc look right, commands disabling colors when writing to a pipe, unwanted color in ls and other commands, and the colors in vim.