diff --git a/evennia/settings_default.py b/evennia/settings_default.py
index 12284ddf4..87b4995c0 100644
--- a/evennia/settings_default.py
+++ b/evennia/settings_default.py
@@ -319,10 +319,12 @@ PROTOTYPE_MODULES = ["world.prototypes"]
 # Module holding settings/actions for the dummyrunner program (see the
 # dummyrunner for more information)
 DUMMYRUNNER_SETTINGS_MODULE = "evennia.server.profiling.dummyrunner_settings"
-# Additional mappings used to extend the existing Evennia ANSI mappings.
-# All mappings should be a tuple of a string to one of the constants provided
-# in ansi.py. For example, (r'%r', "\r\n")
-ADDITIONAL_ANSI_MAPPINGS = []
+# Mapping to extend Evennia's normal ANSI color tags. The mapping is a list of
+# tuples mapping the tag to the ANSI convertion, like `("%c%r", ansi.ANSI_RED)`
+# (the evennia.utils.ansi module contains all ANSI escape sequences). This is
+# mainly supplied for support of legacy codebase tag formats.
+COLOR_ANSI_EXTRA_MAP = []
+
 ######################################################################
 # Default command sets
 ######################################################################
diff --git a/evennia/utils/ansi.py b/evennia/utils/ansi.py
index f7b0fa7d7..f3f34de79 100644
--- a/evennia/utils/ansi.py
+++ b/evennia/utils/ansi.py
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ class ANSIParser(object):
         (r'|[W', ANSI_BACK_WHITE),    # light grey background
         (r'|[X', ANSI_BACK_BLACK)     # pure black background
         ]
-    ext_ansi_map += settings.ADDITIONAL_ANSI_MAPPINGS
+    ext_ansi_map += settings.COLOR_ANSI_EXTRA_MAP
 
     ansi_bright_bgs = [
         # "bright" ANSI backgrounds using xterm256 since ANSI