diff --git a/doc/terminator_config.5 b/doc/terminator_config.5
index 29ea1311..610c6767 100644
--- a/doc/terminator_config.5
+++ b/doc/terminator_config.5
@@ -370,6 +370,10 @@ Default value: \fBFalse\fR
 If true, ignore the configured colours and use values from the theme instead.
 Default value: \fBFalse\fR
 .TP
+.B bold_is_bright
+If true, show bold text with increased brightness. If false, then text boldness can be controlled by applications independently from the text brightness.
+Default value: \fBFalse\fR
+.TP
 .B background_color
 Default colour of terminal background, as a colour specification (can be HTML-style hex digits, or a colour name such as "red"). \fBNote:\fR You may need to set \fBuse_theme_colors=False\fR to force this setting to take effect.
 Default value: \fB'#000000'\fR
diff --git a/terminatorlib/config.py b/terminatorlib/config.py
index fbfcb84e..6338a8f7 100644
--- a/terminatorlib/config.py
+++ b/terminatorlib/config.py
@@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ DEFAULTS = {
                 'custom_command'        : '',
                 'use_system_font'       : True,
                 'use_theme_colors'      : False,
+                'bold_is_bright'        : False,
                 'encoding'              : 'UTF-8',
                 'active_encodings'      : ['UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1'],
                 'focus_on_close'        : 'auto',