ANSI Blue Is Hard to Read

Since 194da5c (thanks to Kazuo Morikawa for finding the commit), systemd colors audit logs in 'ANSI blue' by default. On a VT on a stock Fedora install - which I think will be the same on other distros and *nixes - this is quite hard to read, as the blue used for 'ANSI blue' is a pretty dark one, and the background colour is black. On Fedora with GNOME Terminal the default color palette is 'Tango' with color scheme 'Tango Dark', and with this combo a medium-light blue is used on a dark grey background, so that's quite readable. I don't know about other terminal apps. But it's definitely pretty bad on VTs. It's difficult to pick colors that work for everyone all the time, but being hard to read on a VT seems bad :/ Here's a photo of my screen. If anything, the photo brightens things a tad and makes it look slightly easier to read than it is in person. It was kinda the intention to hide it a bit, since it's boring info.

Скриншот обсуждения системных журналов systemd, окрашенных в тёмно-синий цвет, из-за чего их трудно читать в терминале на чёрном фоне. В ответе автор признаёт, что скрыть скучную информацию было отчасти намеренно. Мем используют как реакцию на плохо читаемый, перегруженный или намеренно замаскированный технический текст.

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