I made the "Aardvark Blue" a while back[1] to solve some of the problems that most color schemes have. The goal of this theme is that:

- colors are fairly natural

- background and black are distinct

- grays are naturally ordered avoiding full black

- light and dark colors are distinct from each other

- all colors look good on background, black, dark gray, gray, white

We use this for all the screenshots on https://ratatui.rs and https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui

It's available from the usual places https://iterm2colorschemes.com/, https://windowsterminalthemes.dev/?theme=Aardvark%20Blue, built in to ghostty, extension for vscode etc.

[1]: https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes/pull/417