Terminal modifying text colors without asking, based on background color.

[Kaz Pinkerton]

The new Terminal.app in Snow Leopard decided it would be cool to change white fonts based on the background brightness without asking me. What happens is as you drag the background color brightness slider, it changes the font colors in an attempt to avoid light-on-light text or vice versa, ironically causing dark-on-dark, or vice versa. Example follows.

Dark background, properly displaying font colors:


Correct background color, improper fonts.




As you can see it also does this for the previously bright cyan color, and it also does it to the purple seen in the second image.

Does anyone know how to turn this idiotic behavior off, I've tried "use bright colors for bold text" but that only half fixes the problem, as not all the improperly dark text is bold.