title: Are there terminals that support true color?
body: <p>I cannot understand why Apple's default terminal has only 16 colors, iterm2 etc support 256 colors, but X11's terminal supports true color (although its user interface is crappy).</p>
  <p>My question is in two parts:</p>
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  <li><p><strong>Why, in this day and age, are terminals not able to support higher colors (i.e., higher than 16 and 256)?</strong></p>
  <p>The last time I asked this, I only got rude comments like <em>&quot;Why don't you write one yourself&quot;</em>... I'm asking seriously, because I do not know about what goes into the internals of a terminal and why the constraint. Is it simply because there is no demand?</p>
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  <li><p><strong>If I'm wrong and there are good terminals that support true color, could you recommend them?</strong></p>
  <p>My observations are based on a Mac, but other platform answers are welcome too, because they might be helpful to others.</p>
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