Re: 6 hexadecimal digit colours in limited-colour terminals

> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:51:15 +0000
> From: Heime <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> 
> On Wednesday, July 15th, 2026 at 11:45 PM, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > > Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:22:27 +0000
> > > From: Heime <[email protected]>
> > >
> > > I have seen that true colour palette uses the 6 digit hexadecimal code
> > > #RRGGBB for colour specification.  Thusly the 6 digit code is incompatible
> > > for 8, 16, and 88 colour terminals.
> > 
> > Why incompatible?
> > 
> > > How is it then that colour specification for 16-colour
> > > terminals still use hex values?  Aren't they supposed to use
> > > colour names instead?
> > 
> > Emacs is capable of converting the names into hex values and vice
> > versa.  So you can use either one.
>  
> Thusly, Emacs will accept true colour codes, but convert to nearest
> colour specified by 16 colour terminal?  

Yes.