+(or whichever colorscheme you choose).
+
+Micro comes with a number of colorschemes by default. The colorschemes that you
+can display will depend on what kind of color support your terminal has.
+
+Modern terminals tend to have a palette of 16 user-configurable colors (these
+colors can often be configured in the terminal preferences), and additional
+color support comes in three flavors.
+
+* 16-color: A colorscheme that uses the 16 default colors will always work but
+ will only look good if the 16 default colors have been configured to the
+ user's liking. Using a colorscheme that only uses the 16 colors from the
+ terminal palette will also preserve the terminal's theme from other
+ applications since the terminal will often use those same colors for other
+ applications. Default colorschemes of this type include `simple` and
+ `solarized`.
+
+* 256-color: Almost all terminals support displaying an additional 240 colors
+ on top of the 16 user-configurable colors (creating 256 colors total).
+ Colorschemes which use 256-color are portable because they will look the
+ same regardless of the configured 16-color palette. However, the color
+ range is fairly limited due to the small number of colors available.
+ Default 256-color colorschemes include `monokai`, `twilight`, `zenburn`,
+ `darcula` and more.
+
+* true-color: Some terminals support displaying "true color" with 16 million
+ colors using standard RGB values. This mode will be able to support
+ displaying any colorscheme, but it should be noted that the user-configured
+ 16-color palette is ignored when using true-color mode (this means the
+ colors while using the terminal emulator will be slightly off). Not all
+ terminals support true color but at this point most do. True color
+ support in micro is off by default but can be enabled by setting the
+ environment variable `MICRO_TRUECOLOR` to 1. In addition your terminal
+ must support it (usually indicated by setting `$COLORTERM` to `truecolor`).
+ True-color colorschemes in micro typically end with `-tc`, such as
+ `solarized-tc`, `atom-dark-tc`, `material-tc`, etc... If true color is not
+ enabled but a true color colorscheme is used, micro will do its best to
+ approximate the colors to the available 256 colors.
+
+Here is the list of colorschemes:
+
+### 256 color
+
+These should work and look nice in most terminals. I recommend these
+themes the most.
+
+* `monokai` (also the `default` colorscheme)
+* `zenburn`
+* `gruvbox`
+* `darcula`
+* `twilight`
+* `railscast`
+* `bubblegum`
+
+### 16 color
+
+These may vary widely based on the 16 colors selected for your terminal.
+
+* `simple`
+* `solarized` (must have the solarized color palette in your terminal to use
+ this colorscheme properly)
+* `cmc-16`
+* `cmc-paper`
+* `geany`
+
+### True color
+
+True color requires your terminal to support it. This means that the
+environment variable `COLORTERM` should have the value `truecolor`, `24bit`,
+or `24-bit`. In addition, to enable true color in micro, the environment
+variable `MICRO_TRUECOLOR` must be set to 1.
+
+* `solarized-tc`: this is the solarized colorscheme for true color.
+* `atom-dark-tc`: this colorscheme is based off of Atom's "dark" colorscheme.
+* `cmc-tc`: A true colour variant of the cmc theme. It requires true color to