Color scheme builder

Choose colors below, the color names are suggestions. You can pick whatever color you like. But it might end up looking strange if you go way off the color names.

Normal text. color0 (black) color8 (black) color7 (white) color15 (white) color1 (red) color9 (red) color2 (green) color10 (green) color3 (yellow) color11 (yellow) color4 (blue) color12 (blue) color5 (magenta) color13 (magenta) color6 (cyan) color14 (cyan)

The left color is used for normal text while the right color is used for bold (or bright) text.

I recommend tabbing through the colors to select them, so that you can focus on the color wheel.

background

foreground

black

white

red

green

yellow

blue

magenta

cyan

What is this?

If you use a terminal emulator under the X Window System this site will help you build a color scheme for the terminal.

Download the X resource string, and save it in a file (~/.Xdefaults). Then load that resource into the resource database (xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults) and start your favorite terminal emulator like so: urxvtc -name weird. (That is if your color scheme is named weird.)