min-colors 88

[fatiparty]

Jan 28, 2022, 03:14 by eliz@gnu.org:

>> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 14:03:54 +0100 (CET)
>> From: fatiparty@tutanota.com
>> Cc: Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>>
>> > No, it means 88 different colors overall.
>> >
>> Would you know the bit length using for each of the base colours when 88 
>> different colours
>> started to be used? Perhaps three 5-Bit numbers?
>>
>
> You are thinking about this in the wrong direction, AFAIU.  On
> text-mode terminals, colors are just indices into a table, and the
> table itself is not exposed.  How the indices are mapped to the actual
> colors is entirely up to the terminal emulator.  So it is not useful
> to think about these colors in terms of bots per pixel.
>
I could be mistaking the interpretation of the hex-codes to the number of 
colours
available.