> On Aug 8, 2017, at 12:39, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > It doesn't look reasonable to me: too few colors. There should be a > lot more of them; I have more than 500 on my system. What does this > show: I acknowledge your much better idea of reasonable! That screen shot is *all* that it lists, only 49 things in GUI mode, whereas TTY mode's listing has 256 colors. > > M-: (display-color-cells) RET It shows "16777216 (#o100000000, #x1000000)" When cutting and pasting that, I noticed that my *Messages* buffer is full of complaints about loading various colors. Presumably this explains what I see, though I don't know why they have disappeared! Here's an example of the messages: Unable to load color "grey75" [2 times] Unable to load color "grey95" Unable to load color "grey90" Unable to load color "grey20" Unable to load color "gray60" Unable to load color "gray80" Unable to load color "gray40" Unable to load color "grey75" Unable to load color "grey90" Unable to load color "grey20" Unable to load color "grey75" Unable to load color "gray30" Unable to load color "medium blue" Unable to load color "grey40" Unable to load color "grey90" Unable to load color "grey20" Unable to load color "grey40"