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Documentation update: explain the color names and how they related to ECMA-48 #2641

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Currently colors in the config are names in what arguably is a somewhat confusing way. E. g. it's not immediately obvious what "BrightBlack" or "BrightWhite" actually is.

It's also not clear if those names are consistent with any other public color names?

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Can we reuse .NET's ConsoleColor enum instead?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.consolecolor?view=netframework-4.8

It's already used in .NET and powershell, and is widely known.

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