background color gray instead of black

I've tried both these commands:

:highlight Normal ctermbg=black
:highlight Normal ctermbg=0

but the background is still ugly grey not true black.

Hmm after a bit more experimentation I find this does what I want:

:highlight Normal ctermbg=255
:highlight Normal ctermbg=255

I guess this has to do with the colorscheme torte that I use in .vimrc,
it just seems a bit weird the explicitly setting the color twice to what
one would expect to be white is required to get it to be black :)

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