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For example, if a bright red object and a bright blue object use the same tile, the tile can use bright red for all pixels that only the red object uses, bright blue for all pixels only the blue object uses, and bright magenta [....] for all pixels both objects use. In this fashion the two objects that share a tile would look completely different. In practice however, this is probably impossible because so many objects share the same tile, the chances of the potential foreground colors sharing a red, green, or blue color component are too great.

So it's impossible to work with combined colours because so many objects share a tile, but you can work with combined colours when two objects share a tile. Does that mean it's not tile-sharing per se that's the problem, but the sheer number of individual objects that can be attached to a tile?

Is there an example that neatly illustrates the use of colours that aren't magenta or shades of grey? From that article, I don't understand the point of using other colours at all.

Weird. I'm having trouble using it with d18; it doesn't show all the characters all that nicely, though higher resolutions show them slightly cleaner than the lower resolutions...

I can't seem to install it, it makes most of the icons invisible if i change it to bmp