On 2017.02.01 at 12:41 +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 12:27:05PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > > I've tried various color settings of gnome-terminal (both white on black > > > and > > > black on white plus the different color sets) and all of them except > > > for Solarized (which is shades of grey) look much brighter than your > > > colors. > > > > See attached screenshot. (I use konsole, but even gnome-terminal > > supports truecolor now. So one has complete freedom in choosing the > > default colors.) > > Sure, one can customize anything. The point is, what colors are configured > by default and thus used by most of the users? > > Just tried konsole (both Linux colors and Black on white) look like this > here:
This points to the core of the issue. I guess most users use a dark (black) background in the terminal. And on a black background the gcc.css colors are perfectly readable. But because we use a white background on the website, the colors have way too little contrast and become hard to read. -- Markus