Currently, users on a non-graphical, non 24-bit Emacs who provide their own `erc-nicks-colors' pool must ensure those colors fall within `erc-nicks-contrast-range' and `erc-nicks-saturation-range' (assuming a non-nil `erc-nicks-color-adjustments', the default). Otherwise, their pool is subject to culling without warning on module init, which they may find frustrating even though this behavior is documented. If people believe this to be a grave enough annoyance, we can do something like the attached, which offers a couple alternate pool-prep approaches that "pre-treat" candidates with `erc-nicks-color-adjustments' and coerce them to predefined system palette members, thus effectively culling by way of deduping. If actually doing this, we'd likely have to add a public-facing knob for selecting between various fixed-pool filtering styles, such as: - cull (current) - treat, coerce, and cull - treat and coerce The latter two differ in that the first rechecks if the remapped "defined" value still falls within specified tolerances, and drops it if it doesn't, while the last approach turns a blind eye. IMO, the first is of limited value unless we were to make it try repeatedly to find a satisfactory match. Although these only run on init, folks may find them too sluggish (both are already quadratic). We could instead make them interactive commands (or `custom-set' functions) that users can use to populate `erc-nicks-colors' while configuring. Personally, I'm not affected by the current behavior because I use graphical Emacs or a 24-bit terminal emulator with ERC. However, I'm open to doing this if others think it worthwhile. Thanks.