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@pbrisbin pbrisbin commented Oct 3, 2025

The "faint" console intensity (\ESC[2m) makes for a nice dim color and
is useful for rendering comments or other, less important text.

For example, the body of the PR being created by my script here:

The ansi-terminal-types documentation says it is "not widely
supported"1, which may be why it's not supported here yet, but I've
found other sources that say the same thing of italics2. Besides,
folks can simply choose not to use.

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  1. https://hackage-content.haskell.org/package/ansi-terminal-types-1.1.3/docs/System-Console-ANSI-Types.html#t:ConsoleIntensity

  2. https://stackoverflow.com/a/33206814

The "faint" console intensity (`\ESC[2m`) makes for a nice dim color and
is useful for rendering comments or other, less important text.

For example, the body of the PR being created by my script here:

![](https://files.pbrisbin.com/screenshots/screenshot.1675716.png)

The `ansi-terminal-types` documentation says it is "not widely
supported"[^1], which may be why it's not supported here yet, but I've
found other sources that say the same thing of italics[^2]. Besides,
folks can simply choose not to use.

[^1]: https://hackage-content.haskell.org/package/ansi-terminal-types-1.1.3/docs/System-Console-ANSI-Types.html#t:ConsoleIntensity
[^2]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33206814
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pbrisbin commented Oct 27, 2025

Oh, I just found #224. It looks much better than this and is Approved, but for some reason it's still in Draft. I would love to see that merged and released instead of this one.

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