tThanks to c00kiemon5ter. Not changing bold to bright colors seems to be the - st - [fork] customized build of st, the simple terminal
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 (DIR) commit 0d88f1ef75c2fe9403a72c80d6fa8ed199ec474f
 (DIR) parent af9e248f976e8396c5aa7fd021ff95ccab78cb72
 (HTM) Author: Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>
       Date:   Tue,  2 Oct 2012 12:48:55 +0200
       
       Thanks to c00kiemon5ter. Not changing bold to bright colors seems to be the
       
       right choice.
       Diffstat:
         M st.c                                |       4 +---
       
       1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
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 (DIR) diff --git a/st.c b/st.c
       t@@ -2182,10 +2182,8 @@ xdraws(char *s, Glyph base, int x, int y, int charlen, int bytelen) {
                if(base.mode & ATTR_REVERSE)
                        temp = fg, fg = bg, bg = temp;
        
       -        if(base.mode & ATTR_BOLD) {
       -                fg += 8;
       +        if(base.mode & ATTR_BOLD)
                        font = &dc.bfont;
       -        }
        
                if(base.mode & ATTR_ITALIC)
                        font = &dc.ifont;