Light schemes are unusable: bold text is white #8712

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opened 2026-01-31 01:36:12 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @mscha on GitHub (May 31, 2020).

Environment

Windows build number: 10.0.19041.264
Windows Terminal version (if applicable): 1.0.1401.0

Any other software?

Steps to reproduce

Configure a WSL profile to use a light color scheme, e.g. Solarized Light.
Open that profile.
Output some bold text, e.g.:

echo `tput bold`Hello`tput sgr0` World

Expected behavior

Ideally, the output should be:
Hello World
with “Hello” in bold. But as long as bold fonts are not supported, it should be emphasized using a slightly different color.

Actual behavior

The word “Hello” is white, and therefore basically invisible. “World” is written in the standard text color.

The “bold color” logic currently assumes that white is a reasonable “bold” color for the standard text color. This might be true on most dark schemes, but not on light schemes.

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claunia added the Resolution-Duplicate label 2026-01-31 01:36:12 +00:00
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Reference: starred/terminal#8712