Today I saw a screenshot of Kakoune in a terminal using the classic IBM VGA font, and I got a sudden rush of nostlagia for my childhood poking around in QBasic on MS-DOS. So I dug up some screenshots and put together a quick Kakoune colour scheme that approximately matched:
# builtin faces
face global Default white,blue
face global PrimarySelection blue,bright-white+fg
face global SecondarySelection blue,white+fg
face global PrimaryCursor bright-white,bright-blue+fg
face global SecondaryCursor white,bright-blue+fg
face global PrimaryCursorEol bright-white,cyan+fg
face global SecondaryCursorEol white,cyan+fg
face global LineNumbers default,default
face global LineNumberCursor default,default+r
face global MenuForeground white,black
face global MenuBackground black,white
face global MenuInfo cyan
face global Information black,yellow
face global Error black,red
face global StatusLine bright-white,cyan
face global StatusLineMode bright-yellow,default
face global StatusLineInfo black,default
face global StatusLineValue black,default
face global StatusCursor cyan,white
face global Prompt black,default
face global MatchingChar default,default+b
face global Whitespace bright-blue,default+f
face global WrapMarker black,default+f
face global BufferPadding black,default
# For Code
face global value red
face global type yellow
face global variable green
face global module green
face global function cyan
face global string magenta
face global keyword default+b
face global operator yellow
face global attribute green
face global comment cyan
face global documentation comment
face global meta magenta
face global builtin default+b
# For markup
face global title default+b
face global header cyan
face global mono green
face global block magenta
face global link cyan
face global bullet cyan
face global list yellow