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 All of the themes use a 256 terminal color palette.  It's likely that the value of `t_Co` is misconfigured.  please see this [article][n] on how to configure your terminal.  Pull requests for 8 and 16 color terminals are welcome.
 
+If you are using tmux, start it with the -2 option.  This lets it know that the terminal supports 256 colors.
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 #### The colors look a little off for some themes.
 
 Certain themes are derived from the active colorscheme by extracting colors from predefined highlight groups.  These airline themes will look good for their intended matching colorschemes, but will be hit or miss when loaded with other colorschemes.