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Re:Show HN: A gayer “lolcat” (CLI text colourizer) by ksaj on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @06:24PM (#23707506)
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

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Re:Show HN: A gayer “lolcat” (CLI text colourizer) by owouwuowo on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @07:04PM (#23707875)
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?

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