Built a terminal palette from Evangelion's NERV consoles.
Not "orange theme" — every slot traces to a source. Pattern Blue canonically means target confirmed as an Angel, so that's the blue slot. 警告 red. Unit-01 purple.
In EVA, screen color is information. The palette follows that rule.
Then I got it backwards.
v1 assigned brightness by how often a color appears in the series.
Blue is rare in EVA → slot 4 went dim.Slot 4 is what ls uses for directories.
2.8:1 against black. The most-read text on screen, unreadable.
Terminal role > aesthetic frequency. Rebuilt at 8.9:1.
The Jet Alone boot screen in ep 7 isn't generic DOS set dressing — it's modeled on a NEC PC-9801. Real BIOS memory test, real https://t.co/nJ24ogryfb https://t.co/63G7hpz0tP I built that machine's ROM font as a TTF to reproduce it.
Which surfaced a fun trap.
ttf-pc9800 converts a PC-9801 FONT.ROM to TrueType. The FONT.ROM it ships is 288,768 bytes of 0xFF.
Exactly the right size — so make succeeds, nothing warns you, and every glyph in the output is a solid block.
Fix: convert FREECG98.BMP, DOSBox-X's free clean-room PC-98 font, into the layout the parser expects. No NEC firmware needed.
Also set post.isFixedPitch=1 — FontForge leaves it clear and it's what apps check when filtering to monospace.
Applied by OSC escape sequence from the server, so the look follows the workstation instead of one client's settings.
Caveat: clients honor wildly different subsets. kitty/iTerm2 all of it. Termius colors but not background. MobaXterm none.
MIT, README in EN/中文/日本語 → https://t.co/t7wGcG7HMi