bash_profile white font bold to normal

Question

# my .bash_profile
function parse_git_branch {
    git branch --no-color 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/(\1)/'
}

YELLOW="\[\033[0;33m\]"
WHITE="\[\033[1;37m\]"

PS1="\w$YELLOW \$(parse_git_branch)$WHITE\$ "

for some reason the final $ and all of the text after that (what I actually type into the terminal) is now a bold white color.

I want it to be normal text-weight and white. How would I fix this?

Answer 1

My prompt uses \[\033[00m\] to go back to the terminal's default color setting. In your case, the 1; is what is activating "bright". If you change it to 0; you should get the "non-bright" white, no matter what your terminal's default color setting is (note that "non-bright" white is usually actually gray, and probably the default).

Answer 2

The text is bold and white because you asked it to be. Your WHITE code is asking for, well, white. What you probably want is something more like:

RESET="\[\033[00m\]"

Then use that instead of WHITE.