Blue on black unreadable for me on Ubuntu Server 2016.04.1 (which has no
GUI, by the way)
How the color appears seems to depend on the console emulator, but on
Ubuntu Server it is hard to switch to an alternative console emulator.
Maybe that's the terminal of Ubuntu Server that needs to be
Actual problem here is indeed terminal settings. Blue on black is almost
always plenty readable when running on physical console.
Please note this palette has only 16 colors so don't try to get too
clever.
The terminal program needs to adjust the palette to something more
readable.
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Bad