diff --git a/TODO.mkdn b/TODO.mkdn
index 0568133..87601af 100644
--- a/TODO.mkdn
+++ b/TODO.mkdn
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ Features
 * Add more comprehensive status support - IDLE, DND, INVISIBLE for now - or at least add similar functionality.
 * SEPARATE FUNCTIONALITY from CONNECTED STATE!! This is a huge problem! Being shunted off our nick closes windows and breaks things! Just D/C and reconnect?
 	* It'd probably be best to give an option to either CHANGE NICKS or DISCONNECT upon nick collision...? But, then how would we GHOST?
+		* Auto-disconnect if collsion before joining channels, make it possible to disconnect (but not send messages, obviously) without losing everything
 	* Maybe GHOSTing should use auto-identify to ensure- no, that doesn't work, because we can't ident into a specified nick without being ON it. Need GD's help to fix....
 
 * Separate Pesterchum system handling from window handling. Dicts should be stored and maintained via dicts - even a refined version of what I used for textsub.
@@ -71,6 +72,7 @@ Todo/Done
 * Make sound work on Windows through QSound (disables volume control)
 * Toggle individual tab flash / alert sounds (from the same right-click memo that lets us toggle OOC)
 * Make CTRL+PGUP/PGDN switch memo/pester tabs
+* Color tags are now posted as their shorter hexadecimal forms, if applicable (255,255,255 -> #FFFFFF, for example)
 
 Debugging
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diff --git a/pnc/lexercon.py b/pnc/lexercon.py
index 3bf9769..81891c9 100644
--- a/pnc/lexercon.py
+++ b/pnc/lexercon.py
@@ -121,10 +121,22 @@ class CTag(Specifier):
             else:
                 if color.name:
                     text = "<c=%s>" % color.name
-                elif self.compact:
-                    text = "<c=%s>" % color.reduce_hexstr(color.hexstr)
                 else:
-                    text = "<c=%d,%d,%d>" % color.to_rgb_tuple()
+                    # We should have a toggle here, just in case this isn't
+                    # acceptable for some reason, but it usually will be.
+                    rgb = "<c=%d,%d,%d>" % color.to_rgb_tuple()
+                    hxs = color.hexstr
+                    if self.compact:
+                        # Try to crush it down even further.
+                        hxs = color.reduce_hexstr(hxs)
+                    hxs = "<c=%s>" % hxs
+                    if len(rgb) <= len(hxs):
+                        # Prefer the more widely-recognized default format
+                        text = rgb
+                    else:
+                        # Hex is shorter, and recognized by everything thus
+                        # far; use it.
+                        text = hxs
         elif format == "plaintext":
             text = ''
         return text