Syntax highlighting in vim

Question

I\'m having trouble reading dark blue on black when I turn on syntax colours in vim.

How do I change some of the default colours or the colours of schemas like:

Answer 1

Favorite colorschemes (set with :colo[rscheme] as mentioned a few times)

" Dark Background
"colo desert256
"colo xoria256 "colo vylight
"colo slate

" Light Background
"colo summerfruit256
"colo beauty256 "colo phpx
"colo morning

The *256 ones work well when working through putty.

My understanding of the background settings is that it tweaks the colors of your colorscheme so they are more visible on a dark or light background. Although the schemes i use seem to handle this themselves well. See:

:h 'background'