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[Bohandas]

In order to prevent the game from running out of tiles/characters as new things are added (and to help prevent modders from running into this problem), I recommend the following steps:

1.) Expand the number of distinct tiles. The new tiles could be anything, but personally I recommend runes, alchemical symbols, astrological symbols, and/or (since the current default tileset ("curses") uses a serif font) a sans-serif font.

2.) Expand the color palette from 16 to 32 colors

[peskyninja]

completely agree,I never undesrtood why 16 colors...

[Bohandas]

The alchemical/astrological symbol for Mercury could easily be used to represent some kind of humanoid

[sockless]

16 colours is easy to fit into 4 bits, but that's not really an issue for DF.

[Silverionmox]

I'd say make the option available to use more fonts for text. That will unburden the graphics, so a lot of letters can be converted to icons, in mods. That doesn't mean we can't use more icon slots .

More important than the number of icons, however, is the ability to change any icon/letter/picture assignment in the raws (eg. small map squares, limbs, separate icons that now have double use, etc.) If it's hard-coded, it doesn't matter how much icons you can draw, because you can't put them in there for that use anyway.