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Selection Color should invert selected text color #3561

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Windows build number: 10.0.18363.0
Windows Terminal version (if applicable): All

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open the terminal.
  2. Select some text.

Expected behavior

Selected text should invert the text colors:

Actual behavior

Text maintains it's original color which leads to contrast issues.
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Notes

Powershell and CMD both invert the text colors when selected, which would fix the contrast ratio accessibility issue present in the terminal:
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    Area-FontsRelated to the fontArea-RenderingText rendering, emoji, complex glyph & font-fallback issuesHelp WantedWe encourage anyone to jump in on these.In-PRThis issue has a related PRIssue-TaskIt's a feature request, but it doesn't really need a major design.Needs-Tag-FixDoesn't match tag requirementsProduct-TerminalThe new Windows Terminal.

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