Add a setting for disabling "intense is bold" #14415

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opened 2026-01-31 04:09:40 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @zadjii-msft on GitHub (Jul 7, 2021).

Originally assigned to: @zadjii-msft on GitHub.

A follow up to #10498

As discussed at length in other threads, esp #109.

Most recently, from @j4james in #10498:

I mean choose if you want SGR 1 to select a bold font face or not (basically a way to disable this PR). I suppose you could potentially implement that by allowing users to choose which font weight is bold, and expect them to select the normal font weight, but that seems a bit obscure. For example, in XTerm you can just uncheck the "Bold Fonts" menu, and in Konsole you uncheck the option "Draw intense colors in bold font".

There are a whole bunch of other variations people may want to configure, e.g. disabling bold-as-bright, or only enabling a bold font when used with the extended colors (i.e. the aix bright colors and the ITU 256/RGB colors). Personally I think the latter is the best default config, since it gives you the standard behaviour for the original 8 SGR colors, while still allowing bold fonts when used with extended colors, but I'd be happy with a simple option to turn this off.

Originally created by @zadjii-msft on GitHub (Jul 7, 2021). Originally assigned to: @zadjii-msft on GitHub. A follow up to #10498 As discussed at length in other threads, esp #109. Most recently, from @j4james in #10498: > I mean choose if you want SGR 1 to select a bold font face or not (basically a way to disable this PR). I suppose you could potentially implement that by allowing users to choose which font weight is bold, and expect them to select the normal font weight, but that seems a bit obscure. For example, in XTerm you can just uncheck the "Bold Fonts" menu, and in Konsole you uncheck the option "Draw intense colors in bold font". > > There are a whole bunch of other variations people may want to configure, e.g. disabling bold-as-bright, or only enabling a bold font when used with the extended colors (i.e. the aix bright colors and the ITU 256/RGB colors). Personally I think the latter is the best default config, since it gives you the standard behaviour for the original 8 SGR colors, while still allowing bold fonts when used with extended colors, but I'd be happy with a simple option to turn this off.
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Reference: starred/terminal#14415