Package: colortest Version: 20110624-9 Architecture: all Maintainer: Micheal Waltz Installed-Size: 39 Depends: perl:any (>= 5), bash (>= 3) Section: utils Priority: optional Multi-Arch: foreign Homepage: https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ Description: utilities to test color capabilities of terminal Most terminals are capable of displaying 16 colors; 8 colors and 2 different brightness values, some (like xterm) can display more, even 256 colors. . The colortest package includes set of utilities to help test how many colors a terminal can show. These color settings depend on the $TERM environment variable and termcap entry and by adjusting or selecting correct values, higher colors may be available. The following numbers of colors can be tested for: 8, 16 and 256 colors.