> The way it's supposed to work is you don't touch the terminal colors but instead configure the program to use different colors.

That makes sense, but... seems infeasible in practice? "The program"? I tell you what program I need to configure: all of them! Ideally even the programs I'm not even using yet.

I think I'll continue doing it my wrong way then: redefining the meanings to mean less/more contrasty. That allows me to effortlessly switch the terminal between light[0] and dark[1] backgrounds. I've done worse things: I also hijacked a part of the 256-colors-cube for my own purposes...

[0]: https://github.com/tasuki/dotrc/blob/master/.config/kitty/so...

[1]: https://github.com/tasuki/dotrc/blob/master/.config/kitty/so...