Fixing the brightening on bold. For the 256 colors and greyscale I assumed a

reasonable solution.

diff --git a/st.c b/st.c
index df166b7..7ae9d8c 100644 (file)
--- a/st.c
+++ b/st.c
@@ -2192,10 +2192,27 @@ xdraws(char *s, Glyph base, int x, int y, int charlen, int bytelen) {
 
        if(base.mode & ATTR_REVERSE)
                temp = fg, fg = bg, bg = temp;
+
        if(base.mode & ATTR_BOLD) {
-               fg = &dc.xft_col[base.fg + 8];
+               if(BETWEEN(base.fg, 0, 7)) {
+                       /* basic system colors */
+                       fg = &dc.xft_col[base.fg + 8];
+               } else if(BETWEEN(base.fg, 16, 195)) {
+                       /* 256 colors */
+                       fg = &dc.xft_col[base.fg + 36];
+               } else if(BETWEEN(base.fg, 232, 251)) {
+                       /* greyscale */
+                       fg = &dc.xft_col[base.fg + 4];
+               }
+               /*
+                * Those ranges will not be brightened:
+                *      8 - 15 – bright system colors
+                *      196 - 231 – highest 256 color cube
+                *      252 - 255 – brightest colors in grescale
+                */
                font = &dc.bfont;
        }
+
        if(base.mode & ATTR_ITALIC)
                font = &dc.ifont;
        if(base.mode & (ATTR_ITALIC|ATTR_ITALIC))