diff --git a/evennia/commands/default/player.py b/evennia/commands/default/player.py
index 560da106b5..ad2748e000 100644
--- a/evennia/commands/default/player.py
+++ b/evennia/commands/default/player.py
@@ -580,8 +580,8 @@ class CmdColorTest(MuxPlayerCommand):
             ap = ansi.ANSI_PARSER
             # ansi colors
             # show all ansi color-related codes
-            col1 = ["%s%s|n" % (code, code.replace("|", "||")) for code, _ in ap.ext_ansi_map[6:14]]
-            col2 = ["%s%s|n" % (code, code.replace("|", "||")) for code, _ in ap.ext_ansi_map[14:22]]
+            col1 = ["%s%s|n" % (code, code.replace("|", "||")) for code, _ in ap.ext_ansi_map[48:56]]
+            col2 = ["%s%s|n" % (code, code.replace("|", "||")) for code, _ in ap.ext_ansi_map[56:64]]
             col3 = ["%s%s|n" % (code.replace("\\",""), code.replace("|", "||").replace("\\", "")) for code, _ in ap.ext_ansi_map[-8:]]
             col2.extend(["" for i in range(len(col1)-len(col2))])
             table = utils.format_table([col1, col2, col3])
@@ -601,8 +601,8 @@ class CmdColorTest(MuxPlayerCommand):
                         # foreground table
                         table[ir].append("|%i%i%i%s|n" % (ir, ig, ib, "||%i%i%i" % (ir, ig, ib)))
                         # background table
-                        table[6+ir].append("|[%i%i%i|%i%i%i%s|n" % (ir, ig, ib,
-                                                            5 - ir, 5 - ig, 5 - ib,
+                        table[6+ir].append("|%i%i%i|[%i%i%i%s|n" % (5 - ir, 5 - ig, 5 - ib,
+                                                            ir, ig, ib,
                                                         "||[%i%i%i" % (ir, ig, ib)))
             table = self.table_format(table)
             string = "Xterm256 colors (if not all hues show, your client might not report that it can handle xterm256):"
diff --git a/evennia/utils/ansi.py b/evennia/utils/ansi.py
index 54cc1431ed..11c0539d03 100644
--- a/evennia/utils/ansi.py
+++ b/evennia/utils/ansi.py
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ class ANSIParser(object):
         """
         return self.ansi_bright_bgs.get(ansimatch.group(), "")
 
-    def sub_xterm256(self, rgbmatch, convert=False):
+    def sub_xterm256(self, rgbmatch, use_xterm256=False):
         """
         This is a replacer method called by `re.sub` with the matched
         tag. It must return the correct ansi sequence.
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ class ANSIParser(object):
 
         Args:
             rgbmatch (re.matchobject): The match.
-            convert (bool, optional): Convert 256-colors to 16.
+            use_xterm256 (bool, optional): Don't convert 256-colors to 16.
 
         Returns:
             processed (str): The processed match string.
@@ -135,19 +135,20 @@ class ANSIParser(object):
         else:
             red, green, blue = int(rgbtag[0]), int(rgbtag[1]), int(rgbtag[2])
 
-        if convert:
+        if use_xterm256:
             colval = 16 + (red * 36) + (green * 6) + blue
             return "\033[%s8;5;%s%s%sm" % (3 + int(background), colval // 100, (colval % 100) // 10, colval%10)
+            #return "\033[%s8;5;%sm" % (3 + int(background), colval)
         else:
             # xterm256 not supported, convert the rgb value to ansi instead
-            if red == green and red == blue and red < 2:
+            if red == green == blue and red < 3:
                 if background:
                     return ANSI_BACK_BLACK
                 elif red >= 1:
                     return ANSI_HILITE + ANSI_BLACK
                 else:
                     return ANSI_NORMAL + ANSI_BLACK
-            elif red == green and red == blue:
+            elif red == green == blue:
                 if background:
                     return ANSI_BACK_WHITE
                 elif red >= 4: