Session Profiles → Colors

Here you can choose from a predefined palette of colors for the fore and background and for rendering characters with specific attributes, e.g. you can display characters in yellow when the host wants to display them underlined. Depending on the terminal emulation, the remote host can change the display colors to highlight text.

ZOC's default is black text on white background. If you encounter odd color effects with your host, please try the classic gray text on black background.

The colors of the first 16 entries in each palette are industry standard, although their individual shades may vary slightly. These colors should be changed with caution. If you still wish to modify them, you can use the Edit Color Palette button to assign new colors to each entry. When a remote host requests one of the base colors (e.g., "green"), ZOC will use the color you defined in the global table.

TN3270/5250 Note: The 3270 and 5250 emulations technically require complete color sets. Hence the foreground and background colors will be ignored. Instead ZOC offers a selection of color schemes (combinations of some of the 16 base colors) for these 3270/5250 emulations. These can be selected in Session Profile→Emulation. Modification of the global color table (see above) will affect the colors in these schemes.

IIn this section, you can select from various color palettes for the base colors. While most palettes are based on the same set of colors, they have slight variations in hues for colors like light blue, light red, green, etc.. You may prefer to choose a palette that you are accustomed to. Additionally, there are palettes such as Solarized that are not based on the typical 16 ANSI colors but on a different color system.