Search marking: 1. only changes the background, so as @b4n said the foreground setting is ignored, this is the way Scintilla (the editing component we use) works, it means you can still see syntax styling on the marked text
2. is applied with a fixed alpha of 60, so you will never get your bright colours --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/916#issuecomment-188550087
