Option boldIsBright added

[M0M097]

Added the option boldIsBright which is set to False by default. If set to True in termonad.hs this will lead to bright bold fonts.

This solves the issue with the unreadable blue text on dark background since blue text is almost always used together with bold fonts.

I would recommend to even set boldIsBright to True by default.

[cdepillabout]

Thanks for sending this.

I tried this out and this is what the colors look like:

My blue settings (from #176 (comment)) with boldIsBright set to False:

My blue settings (from #176 (comment)) with boldIsBright set to True:

The default Termonad palette with boldIsBright set to False:

The default Termonad palette with boldIsBright set to True (you can tell that this does make bold standard blue readable, unlike non-bold standard blue):

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Here's the bash line to generate this output:

$ echo -e "\n\nnon-bold standard blue: \033[34mHello\033[0m\nnon-bold light blue:    \033[94mHello\033[0m\nbold standard blue:     \033[1;34mHello\033[0m\nbold light blue:        \033[1;94mHello\033[0m\n\n"

[cdepillabout]

I would recommend to even set boldIsBright to True by default.

I hesitate setting this to True by default.

If boldIsBright is False, the end user has 4 visually distinct font styles to use (standard, light, standard+bold, light+bold). But if boldIsBright is set to True, the end user only has 3 distinct font styles (standard, light, light+bold).

I think the cleaner solution is to just brighten up the standard and light blue colors, a la #177. Although I agree that we should be careful to make sure that the selected colors look alright in popular tui apps.

[cdepillabout]

Thanks for implementing this!

Released as v4.1.0.0:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/termonad-4.1.0.0