Ideally, the results of this post could be compiled and featured in a helpfile to help out future artists.
I personally prefer tasteful and precision use of colour, but I mean, use your judgement.
Does it look like clown vomit? Then you may have gone overboard.
Link to an online one where you can shift the colors around: https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/
I'm not sure what else to suggest. Personally, ANSI colors on what amounts to a terminal screen interface are always going to look disjointed. Not to say it can't be well done, but I've seen artwork that has looked like crayola vomit, and I don't think that criticism amounts to whining. I think that should you choose to use color tags, Supermarket's point of limiting palette choices is very on-point.
The problem with gigantic clown vomit descriptions is that when people want me to look at art, shit is generally happening in the room that I have to respond to and I don't have time to read eight sentences before I have even the vaguest understanding of the composition of the piece. Same goes for clothing and nakeds. I generally try to at least gloss over someone's appearance even if it's fairly long so that I can describe them later or keep a picture in my head, but if it's so long that I can't do that, it's kind of unfair to me as a player. Especially if they're shooting at me or something.
