ANSI Normal and Bright colors are the same

[mrp52]

Please see attached screenshot of iTerm2 (left) and Ghostty (right) and their respective fastfetch output.

Note that both iTerm2 and Ghostty are using Catppuccin Mocha. iTerm2 is using the unmodified catppuccin-mocha.itermcolors whereas Ghostty is using theme = catppuccin-mocha set in its config file as the theme is built in. Also note the red boxes were edited into the screenshot obviously and not part of the terminal output :)

As you can see in the coloured bars rendered by fastfetch the output is different. Ghostty is rendering them correctly with the bottom row using the Bright ANSI color. iTerm2, for some reason, has the same value for both Normal and Bright ANSI colors.

In my personal opinion I feel the iTerm2 theme is wrong and Ghostty's theme is correct.

However I do not know if this is just a bug/oversight/mistake or as designed by the Catppuccin iTerm2 theme maintainer(s)? So before I spend time posting the correct values I figured it made more sense to ask if this is how the Catppuccin maintainers want the iTerm2 theme to look? And if so why?

[uncenter]

The bright colors have historically been the same as the normal ones. A recent update to the palette introduced bright color variants, but those have not made their way into the ports yet. The Ghostty theme you are using is not maintained by us, but in our port of Ghostty catppuccin/ghostty#7 would fix this.

[mrp52]

Here is a "quick fix" I did to the iTerm theme to use the Ghostty values for ANSI Bright so that they are consistent.

[mrp52]

The bright colors have historically been the same as the normal ones. A recent update to the palette introduced bright color variants, but those have not made their way into the ports yet. The Ghostty theme you are using is not maintained by us, but in our port of Ghostty catppuccin/ghostty#7 would fix this.

Ah okay thanks for pointing me to this, I didn't see it when looking at open issues.

So I guess just wait until these new Bright varients are released? In the mean time I fixed it for my own setup (as you can see in my previous post which I just happened to post before I was aware of your reply) but as there is already work in progress on this I won't waste anyones time submitting a PR with duplicate work. Thanks uncenter :)

I will close this out as no need for it to stay open.

[mrp52]

Figured just in case anyone wants the theme I am using in the above "fixed" screenshot before the fixes are released as part of the proper theme I have attached the Catppuccin Mocha only theme exported from iTerm2. Note as it is only the Mocha theme it doesn't have Light/Dark entries which just causes problems in iTerm2 anyway with its 'dynamic' theme switching. So this will always be a dark Mocha theme regardless of if you're in light or dark mode.

catppuccin-mocha-ansi.itermcolors.zip