As vim’s own help on set background says, “Setting this option does not change the background color, it tells Vim what the background color looks like. For changing the background color, see |:hi-normal|.”
For example
:highlight Normal ctermfg=grey ctermbg=darkblue
will write in white on blue on your color terminal.
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