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The basic colors accepted are `normal`, `black`, `red`, `green`, `yellow`,
`blue`, `magenta`, `cyan` and `white`. The first color given is the
-foreground; the second is the background.
+foreground; the second is the background. All the basic colors except
+`normal` have a bright variant that can be speficied by prefixing the
+color with `bright`, like `brightred`.
+
Colors may also be given as numbers between 0 and 255; these use ANSI
256-color mode (but note that not all terminals may support this). If