Here’s a nice white on black color scheme for xterm, put this in your ~/.Xdefaults file
xterm*color0: #1a1a1a xterm*color1: #ba8b8b xterm*color2: #86af80 xterm*color3: #c6d01e xterm*color4: #3c8ec4 xterm*color5: #9a70b2 xterm*color6: #9fc1cc xterm*color7: #c6c6c6 xterm*color8: #71a3b7 xterm*color9: #e5505f xterm*color10: #8cba87 xterm.color11: #e0d95c xterm*color12: #5899c4 xterm.color13: #ad73ba xterm*color14: #338eaa xterm*color15: #f7f7f2
