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The Evolution of Base24

The Base16 and Base24 specifications have been reevaluated to address certain shortcomings and enhance overall compatibility and usability.

Advantages of the Proposed Changes

These adjustments introduce two additional colours and enhance support for an existing colour, offering greater flexibility and consistency within the scheme.

Shortcomings of Base24 0.1.0

  • Lack of a bright variant for the colour Brown, which was presumed deprecated.
  • Colours are not arranged in 'ansi order,' complicating the mapping process to ANSI counterparts.

Objectives of the Proposed Changes

  • Transition away from the baseXX naming convention, which can be confusing for scheme and template designers, in favour of a more intuitive naming system.

Disadvantages and Compatibility Considerations

These changes will break forwards compatibility; existing Base16 schemes will no longer function, and previous versions of Base24 schemes will become incompatible. However, backwards compatibility can be preserved with some effort, although this may require additional work from builders.

File Structure

Schemes

name: "Scheme Name"
author: "Scheme Author"
bg_darkest: "21252b"
bg_dark: "282c34"
black_b: "4f5666"
bg: "3f4451"
fg: "e6e6e6"
fg_lightest: "ffffff"
...

Builder Guidelines

Requirements

Builders should iterate through a series of local templates and schemes to generate outputs. An example file structure for input and output:

input/schemes
     /templates
output/[template_name_0]/[scheme_name_0]/data
                        /[scheme_name_1]/data
      /[template_name_1]/[scheme_name_0]/data
                        /[scheme_name_1]/data

Support variations of the names as listed under styling (in parentheses)

Support variations of the names supporting the following variations:

HEX
	RGB
	R
	G
	B
INT
	RGB
	R
	G
	B
DEC
	RGB
	R
	G
	B

An example of this may be white_b_int_r

Optional but Desirable

Builders may use a config file pointing to a list of schemes and fetch these through git.

Ensure backward compatibility with Base24 0.1.0 and Base16 0.9.1.

Styling

Example - One Dark Theme

Name Colour HEX Code RGB
bg_darkest bg_darkest 21252b 33,37,43
bg_dark bg_dark 282c34 40,44,52
black black 3f4451 63,68,81
black_b black_b 4f5666 79,86,102
white white e6e6e6 230,230,230
white_b white_b ffffff 255,255,255
red red e06c75 224,108,117
red_b red_b ff7b86 255,123,134
green green 98c379 152,195,121
green_b green_b b1e18b 177,225,139
yellow yellow d19a66 209,154,102
yellow_b yellow_b efb074 239,176,116
blue blue 61afef 97,175,239
blue_b blue_b 67cdff 103,205,255
magenta magenta c678dd 198,120,221
magenta_b magenta_b e48bff 228,139,255
cyan cyan 56b6c2 86,182,194
cyan_b cyan_b 63d4e0 99,212,224

New colours

Name Colour HEX Code RGB
orange orange d78460 215,132,96
orange_b orange_b de9a7c 222,154,124
brown brown 994949 153,73,73
brown_b brown_b bf5c5c 191,92,92
pink pink e9969d 233,150,157
pink_b pink_b eeafb4 238,175,180

Colour Mapping

The proposed mappings between Base24, the previous Base24 version, and Base16:

Base24 Base24 (old) Base16
bg_darkest base11 base00
bg_dark base10 base00
bg (black) base00 base00
black_b base01 base01
fg (white) base06 base06
fg_lightest (white_b) base07 base07
red base08 base08
red_b base12 base08
green base0B base0B
green_b base14 base0B
yellow base09 base09
yellow_b base13 base0A
blue base0D base0D
blue_bright base16 base0D
magenta(purple) base0E base0E
magenta_b (purple_b) base17 base0E
cyan base0C base0C
cyan_b base15 base0C