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Powerline Colorscheme - ANSI

Everyone these days uses twenty-dozen colors. For those of us attempting to use a consistent, high-contrast terminal color scheme, this can be frustrating. We don't want a true-color terminal application that suddenly clashes with environment shifts, or disrespects our choices. Packages like Powerline often ship with these complicated 256-color schemes which make default assumptions about terminal colors that don't work with our 16-color schemes.

Because of this, it's about time for a simple color scheme: an ANSI scheme.

Requirements

The Colors

For maximum compatibility, the included colors.json file defines the 16 base ANSI colors as their own color variables, all prefixed with the ansi: namespace. Thus we have:

ansi:black
ansi:brightblack
ansi:red
ansi:brightred
ansi:green
ansi:brightgreen
ansi:yellow
ansi:brightyellow
ansi:blue
ansi:brightblue
ansi:magenta
ansi:brightmagenta
ansi:cyan
ansi:brightcyan
ansi:white
ansi:brightwhite

There are also two simple "gradients" included: ansi:good_bad (green, yellow, red) and ansi:ok_bad (white, yellow, red).

Unlike other schemes, which use hex codes or pick "nice" values out of the 256-color X11 table, this scheme simply directly maps these color variables to your personally-defined 16 environment colors. That means that regardless of whether you use .Xresources or xfce4-terminal or etc., it will pull your basic color scheme and use those colors for your powerline.

Finally.

The Scheme

Included is a default colorscheme that includes all default powerline elements as well as all elements from the excellent gitstatus extension.

Installation

Merge this folder with ~/.config/powerline. You will need to set colorscheme to ANSI under config.json for any extensions you wish to activate it on. For example, for shell use:

{
	"ext": {
		"shell": {
			"colorscheme": "ANSI"
		}
	}
}

If you aren't using gitstatus: I believe you will have to remove the related lines from colors.json. This should be relatively straightforward, and i have left a linebreak to seperate them in the file.

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