Half the colors are gray

[adenflorian]

I'm on Windows 10 Build 16299 (Fall Creators Update).

I feel like I'm missing something here, but the regs in this project have half of the colors as shades of gray. I get that it's the base16 style, but windows console colors only have 4 shades of gray, where the rest are colors. If you make the second half of the colors shades of gray, then test that should be a color will now be shades of gray, making it near impossible to read on most backgrounds.

Using the win10colors.cmd. Default windows colors:

Eighties theme from this repo:

[roelandm]

I've got the same problem with the phd theme.

[Frydac]

I've tried a few, and they all are like that. Which makes them unusable for me as e.g. msbuild outputs with the strong version of the colors, and now I can't easily distinguish between errors and warning (or even hard too see difference between normal).

EDIT: after looking into this on windows a little bit it seems that this is just the way colors are defined in base16. It doesn't seem to use the same semantics as windows: windows seems to use 8 colors as normal and 8 colors as strong, while base16 colors don't seem to be defined this way. Not sure how linux shells use these colors, I do think they also have strong versions of colors.. not sure though