COLOUR                                                                         

  GUIDE / COLOUR

Game text takes colour from pipe codes. help colors in the game lists every
code the server accepts; the short version is that a code starts with a pipe
and colours whatever follows it.
The codes

|r–|x set the sixteen terminal colours. Lowercase letters are the bright
half; uppercase letters are the dark half.
|500–|555 set any of the 216 xterm256 cube colours, and |=a–|=z walk
the greys from black to white.
|#rrggbb sets a 24-bit colour, and |#rgb is the short form. A client
without 24-bit colour is shown the nearest xterm256 colour instead.
|[ before any of these sets a background instead of a text colour. |n
resets, and || writes a literal pipe.

Colour codes do not count against the visible-character limit on authored
fields such as worn descriptions. The words do.
The colour tool
The colour tool builds gradients: choose a ramp, type the
line, and it prints the result the way the game will, with the codes ready to
copy. Every ramp is interpolated in OKLab, so it stays even across its length
instead of crossing a muddy middle, and the tool works with JavaScript off.
Each ramp carries its character — a value fade or a hue sweep, warm or cool,
deep or bright — and the filter finds ramps by those words, as well as by name
and family. Backgrounds have a text-safe variant that keeps the ramp dark
enough for a light foreground.
Every ramp prints as truecolor or as xterm256. Xterm output picks the nearest
terminal colour, cube or grey, so a dark line keeps its shape instead of
collapsing to near-black. The Xterm family is drawn in the cube's own
colours. Mirror reads a ramp out and back, so the line turns at its middle.
Tailoring, tattoos, and body descriptions take text colour and not
backgrounds. Artwork canvases take any colour, backgrounds included.


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