DUB colored output proposal/showcase

[Anton Fediushin]

On Tuesday, 19 June 2018 at 19:22:09 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2018-06-09 00:45, gdelazzari wrote:
>
>> Actually, I was thinking about that too. In fact, what if a 
>> user is
>> using a "classic" dark-background theme on macOS's terminal? 
>> Or another
>> terminal which by default uses a dark background, like the one 
>> mentioned
>> above? He would get all the colors and the text contrast 
>> messed up if I
>> put a different color scheme for macOS only. The only valid 
>> option would
>> be to check the background color of the terminal, but I don't 
>> think
>> that's possible at all in a standardized way, unless someone 
>> can prove
>> me wrong. That would be cool.
>
> As I mentioned, I think the only way to do this is to avoid 
> using white and black colors and assume all other colors (at 
> least the standard ones) work with the selected theme. For 
> regular text, reset to the default foreground color instead of 
> explicitly using black or white.

Not just black and white but also some shades of grey. Recently I 
fixed the same problem in the vibe.d's logger 
(https://github.com/vibe-d/vibe-core/pull/82) and all I can say 
is that the only way to deal with colours is to test it on both 
black and white background.