Kitty: Render bold text in bright color

[tywtyw2002]

Is possible to add the feature to render bold text in bright color.

The iTerm2 and Terminal already have this feature to render bold text in bright color.

[kovidgoyal]

dup of #197

[ckabalan]

I appreciate the work @kovidgoyal does, but much to his annoyance I'm also going to chime in here to say the lack of this configurable setting and the hard lined approach to NOT implementing this totally optional feature has lost me as a new user.

Despite it being "stupid" or "broken ass usage", it is a common feature among every terminal emulator I've used and there is no good reason this shouldn't be a configurable off-by-default option. Even if it is not part of a formal spec it has become an informal feature people expect, and Kitty should support it.

Moving to Kitty from iTerm2 proves to be a completely positive improvement in my terminal, except the lack of this feature loses me.

Will stay engaged and check back if there is at least a positive direction for this feature.

[josser]

@kovidgoyal I've read #197 issue and it looks like there was some sort of misunderstanding
tl;dr: People want to use bright for bold, not bold for bright.

Original ticket creator wants to have an option which makes all text which is already bold to be rendered with bright colors.
And you understand this request as: 'make all bold text bright instead of bold'.
This is not the same. By adding such option users just want to increase 'boldness' of already bold text. It doesn't expected to replace bold with bright.
The reason for this is probably because of usage 'dark' styled color themes.
When we have dark text on light bg it's enough to have bold or regular option.
But when it's light text (usaully not really light) on dark bg it's just have not enough brightness even if it's bold.

[kovidgoyal]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 03:42:45AM -0700, Dmitry Chirkin wrote:

The reason for this is probably because of usage 'dark' styled color themes.
When we have dark text on light bg it's enough to have bold or regular option.
But when it's light text (usaully not really light) on dark bg it's just have not enough brightness even if it's bold.

So set the colors to whatever floats your boat in kitty.conf. That
escape code changes the FONT FACE from regular to heavy weight. It DOES
NOT affect colors. Adding an option to make it affect colors means that
anyone using the escape code now has no clue what it does.

[josser]

What you said, forced me to read some articles, to understand how all this things works.
I'll left this link here: https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/BuildyourownCommandLinewithANSIescapecodes.html
Maybe this will help other people to understand why bold and bright is different things and why it's bad idea to mix them in such way.
Thank you!