On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 2:06 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If I were doing this, I'd just prepare a table with 32 color slots > or so [*1*], start at a random spot (say 017:00005f) of > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Xterm_256color_chart.svg, > > and pick spots by jumping southeast like a chess knight > (i.e. 017->030->043->086->...) until the table is filled, wrapping > around at the edge of that color chart as necessary. If you want to play with that, [1] may help, which sorts colors in hsv space, and you can select a few colors to see how they look, either manually or by calculation. Yeah we probably get maybe 32 (or 48 if you stretch it a bit) distinct colors. Not sure if it's any better with true color terminals, probably not. [1] https://gist.github.com/pclouds/616b67f0b5a9b20d74373286574cd0ac -- Duy
