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33 points by owouwuowo 5 years ago · 9 comments

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ksaj 5 years ago

I have a feature request - something to keep foreground from being the same colour as the background. Otherwise there is a lot of unreadable text.

It's actually a useful utility for your Pride Month dashboard: cal |gay -c24

  • owouwuowoOP 5 years ago

    thats actually a hardish problem to solve.

    I originally had a feature like that, but I just couldn't figure out what background colours to use.

    For example the asexual flag here https://ladygeekgirl.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/asexual-fla...

    Its black, grey, white, and dark purple, I just don't know what kind of background colour would actually make text more legible.

    I could do different background colours for each gradient, but thats probably even ugiler.

    Do you have any suggestions?

conradev 5 years ago

Does this support 24-bit true color?

buboard 5 years ago

Thats a kinda insensitive stereotype

  • owouwuowoOP 5 years ago

    I certainly do not mean to cause offense to LGBT people, in fact I am one of them!

    I don't see how having a CLI tool that prints our flags insensitive tho.

  • ksaj 5 years ago

    There are some stereotypes that are considered funny by both; those the joke is about, and everyone else. A look at the crowd at any Pride parade suggests rainbow colours on everything is pretty much universally humourous.

    Everyone hates hatred. But this particular stereotype has rather a positive, celebratory air to it.

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