Corresponding colors from iTerm (terminal) to Vim

Question

I finally took the step and started to create a colorscheme for myself. I'm using iTerm .

Here is my iTerm-color-page:

In Vim, there are both darkblue, blue and lightblue. But in iTerm, I can only see the normal-option and the bright-option. I've read quite a lot on ANSI-colors, and can't really figure out, why Vim have more colors available, than my iTerm-color-palette offers?

Here's an example of the corresponding colors from iTerm to Vim:

iTerm color       Vim-color
----------------------------
Normal-red        darkred
Bright-red        red 

Normal-blue       blue
Bright-blue       lightblue

How do I figure out (and set), which colors I have available to use in my Vim colorscheme?

Answer 1

By writing :help cterm-colors in Vim, then I got the left side of the following table. By trial-and-error, I tried out different colors from iTerm and figured out the following (ready to be copied into a .vim-colorscheme to help remember what is what:

" AVAILABLE ANSI COLORS IN iTerm
" 
" 0 =     Black                     - iTerm-ref: Black, normal
" 1 =     DarkBlue                  - iTerm-ref: Blue, normal
" 2 =     DarkGreen                 - iTerm-ref: Green, normal
" 3 =     DarkCyan                  - iTerm-ref: Cyan, normal 
" 4 =     DarkRed                   - iTerm-ref: Red, normal
" 5 =     DarkMagenta               - iTerm-ref: Magenta, normal
" 6 =     Brown, DarkYellow         - iTerm-ref: ??
" 7 =     Grey                      - iTerm-ref: ??
" 8 =     DarkGrey                  - iTerm-ref: ??
" 9 =     Blue, LightBlue           - iTerm-ref: Blue, bright
" 10 =    Green, LightGreen         - iTerm-ref: Green, bright
" 11 =    Cyan, LightCyan           - iTerm-ref: Cyan, bright
" 12 =    Red, LightRed             - iTerm-ref: Red, bright
" 13 =    Magenta, LightMagenta     - iTerm-ref: Magenta, bright
" 14 =    Yellow, LightYellow       - iTerm-ref: Yellow, bright
" 15 =    White                     - iTerm-ref: White, bright 

The colors with question-marks are unable to be changed (unless I'm blind or something).