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\subsection set_color-description Description
-`set_color` changes the foreground and/or background color of the terminal. `COLOR` is one of black, red, green, brown, yellow, blue, magenta, purple, cyan, white and normal.
+`set_color` changes the foreground and/or background color of the terminal. `COLOR` is one of `black`, `red`, `green`, `brown`, `yellow`, `blue`, `magenta`, `purple`, `cyan`, `brred`, `brgreen`, `brbrown`, `bryellow`, `brblue`, `brmagenta`, `brpurple`, `brcyan`, `white` and `normal`. The `br`, bright, forms are most useful as background colors.
-If your terminal supports term256 (modern xterms and OS X Lion), you can specify an RGB value with three or six hex digits, such as A0FF33 or f2f. `fish` will choose the closest supported color.
+If your terminal supports term256 (modern xterms and OS X Terminal and iTerm2), you can specify an RGB value with three or six hex digits, such as A0FF33 or f2f. `fish` will choose the closest supported color. A three digit value is equivalent to specifying each digit twice; e.g., `#2BC` is the same as `#22BBCC`. Hex RGB values can be in lower or uppercase, optionally prefixed with the pound-sign character.
The following options are available:
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ The following options are available:
Calling `set_color normal` will set the terminal color to the default color of the terminal.
-Some terminals use the `--bold` escape sequence to switch to a brighter color set. On such terminals, `set_color white` will result in a grey font color, while `set_color --bold white` will result in a white font color.
+Some terminals use the `--bold` escape sequence to switch to a brighter color set rather than bolding the characters.
Not all terminal emulators support all these features.