Colours Overview

We define a set of colour codes organized into shades ranging from dark to light. These codes are commonly used in software development and design for creating themes or styling user interfaces.

Base24 Fallbacks

We provide a mapping between Base24 and Base16 colour codes for reference:

Base24	Base16
base10	base00
base11	base00
base12	base08
base13	base0A
base14	base0B
base15	base0C
base16	base0D
base17	base0E

Usage Guidelines

We offer guidelines for both dark and light themes:

• Dark Theme:

  • Colours from base00 to base07 should range from dark to light.
  • Colours base10 to base11 should span from light to dark, but still darker than base00.

• Light Theme:

  • Colours from base00 to base07 should range from light to dark.
  • Colours base10 to base11 should span from dark to light, but lighter than base00.

Specific Colours and Their Usages

Each colour (baseNN) serves a specific purpose or use case, such as background, foreground, variables, etc. Here's a breakdown:

Colour	BaseNN	Ansi	Terminal/Colour Use	Text Editor
	base00	-	Background	Default Background
	base01	0	Black	Lighter Background (Used for status bars)
	base02	8	Bright Black	Selection Background
	base03	-	(Grey)	Comments, Invisibles, Line Highlighting
	base04	-	(Light Grey)	Dark Foreground (Used for status bars)
	base05	-	Foreground	Default Foreground, Caret, Delimiters, Operators
	base06	7	White	Light Foreground (Not often used)
	base07	15	Bright White	The Lightest Foreground (Not often used)
	base08	1	Red	Variables, XML Tags, Markup Link Text, Markup Lists, Diff Deleted
	base09	3	Yellow	Integers, Boolean, Constants, XML Attributes, Markup Link Url
	base0A	~11	(Bright Yellow)	Classes, Markup Bold, Search Text Background
	base0B	2	Green	Strings, Inherited Class, Markup Code, Diff Inserted
	base0C	6	Cyan	Support, Regular Expressions, Escape Characters, Markup Quotes
	base0D	4	Blue	Functions, Methods, Attribute IDs, Headings
	base0E	5	Purple	Keywords, Storage, Selector, Markup Italic, Diff Changed
	base0F	-	(Dark Red/Brown)	Deprecated Highlighting for Methods and Functions, Opening/Closing Embedded Language Tags, e.g., <?php ?>
	base10	-	('Darker' Black)	Darker Background
	base11	-	('Darkest' Black)	The Darkest Background
	base12	9	Bright Red	NA
	base13	11	Bright Yellow	NA
	base14	10	Bright Green	NA
	base15	14	Bright Cyan	NA
	base16	12	Bright Blue	NA
	base17	13	Bright Purple	NA

Note: Items in parenthesis for the Terminal/Colour Use do not have an identified terminal use and are a more generic colour description. Implementation may vary depending on the Base24 scheme.