The foreground color is not rendering as expected

[eatkins]

I am running the latest version of kitty on mac os and I am finding that kitty is not rendering the foreground color that I have set correctly. In an empty kitty.conf I have set foreground #00FEA7 but when I measure the font color with the built in digital color meter, it is rendering as #74feae. Any thoughts as to why I am seeing a discrepancy? I have attached two screenshots. One is the kitty.conf file rendered with the built in terminal app, the other with kitty. EDIT: I noticed I have the same problem of unwanted red if I try to set the background color.

Kitty:

Terminal.app:

[kovidgoyal]

You are rendering it with kitty you are rendering it with vim or nvim or something similar. The color comes from the editors color theme, not kitty.

[eatkins]

The unwanted red values show up in any program. It just happened to be the case that I took the screenshots in nvim. I could reproduce the exact same issue in an empty bash, zsh or fish shell prompt.

[eatkins]

I was curious and I ran kitty under virtualbox in Ubuntu and the colors do render correctly there so I only see this behavior when running under macos.

[kovidgoyal]

If you want to test colors, you do it via printf not some third party program. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#SGR_(Select_Graphic_Rendition)_parameters And if you are talking about how the colors are interpreted, see https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/#opt-kitty.macos_colorspace

[eatkins]

Yes, the problem was that I was measuring the native values with digital color meter (which is built into mac os, not third party). I switched to macos_colorspace default and now the colors render as expected.