Here I define the colors as a dull red color scheme (the colors are in hexadecimal RGB). Besides giving a nice color palette when doing ``ls -color=yes'', each application theme that doesn't explicity specify to change the ansicolors(see 6.4.3) will also go in the Debian-red color scheme!
ANSICOLOR_BRIGHTRED=cc1111
ANSICOLOR_BRIGHTBLUE=553333
ANSICOLOR_BRIGHTGREEN=442222
ANSICOLOR_BRIGHTCYAN=662222
ANSICOLOR_BRIGHTYELLOW=883333
ANSICOLOR_BRIGHTMAGENTA=554444
ANSICOLOR_BRIGHTBLACK=330000
ANSICOLOR_BRIGHTWHITE=665555
ANSICOLOR_YELLOW=883333
ANSICOLOR_RED=880000
ANSICOLOR_GREEN=885555
ANSICOLOR_BLUE=553333
ANSICOLOR_GREEN=442222
ANSICOLOR_CYAN=662222
ANSICOLOR_YELLOW=883333
ANSICOLOR_MAGENTA=554444
ANSICOLOR_BLACK=330000
ANSICOLOR_WHITE=665555
background and foreground get a grey/black look. Transparency is only deactivated.
CURSORCOLOR=$ANSICOLOR_RED
FGPOINTERCOLOR=$ANSICOLOR_RED
BGCOLOR=dedede
FGCOLOR=000000
## transparency off
BGBRIGHTNESSRED=256
BGBRIGHTNESSGREEN=256
BGBRIGHTNESSBLUE=256
BGTRANSPARENCY=0