Solarized colors inside terminal emacs

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I trying to setup the solarized color scheme for Emacs running in terminal mode. I use https://github.com/bbatsov/solarized-emacs.git 's solarized-dark theme. However while this works for desktop windows the colors are modified when running in terminal mode emacs -nw:

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The color is a dark blue while the standard background for solarized dark is dark and geenish:

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The standard background color #002b36 is defined here. I tried to change it but there seem to be an interpolation layer inside Emacs that changes it to blue unless I change it to something more different like black. Does anyone know howto configure Emacs to support more color shades? I'm running inside Kconsole but can see the same behaviour in gnome-terminal.

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By default terminal works in 16 colors mode. You have to set environment variable TERM:

export TERM=xterm-256color

I'm using zsh, so I put this line in my ~/.zshrc file.

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https://github.com/sellout/emacs-color-theme-solarized handles solarized dark theme colors in terminal mode.