Citing Po Lu, who kindly fixed part of the issue[2]: I see the problem, or rather, two distinct problems, the one being that the cursor face is flatly ignored when a stipple pattern is present, which I've just fixed, the other that the colors of such a stipple pattern are fixed to the image's background color and a black foreground, rather than adapting to the colors of the face in which it is displayed. Here my scant knowledge of matters Nextstep failed me, and as such I will leave this to someone else with more experience than I. This report is about the second part described above. Best, Arash Footnotes: [1] https://github.com/jdtsmith/indent-bars#stipples [2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-05/msg00103.html In GNU Emacs 30.0.50 (build 1, aarch64-apple-darwin23.4.0, NS appkit-2487.50 Version 14.4.1 (Build 23E224)) of 2024-05-02 built on MacMutant.fritz.box Repository revision: ef6ffbdc79645e719d3b5ef23c9200405c58c61e Repository branch: master Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.2487 System Description: macOS 14.4.1 Configured using: 'configure --with-ns --without-pop --without-mailutils --with-threads --with-modules --with-native-compilation --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -g0 -pipe'' Configured features: ACL GLIB GMP GNUTLS LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY KQUEUE NS PDUMPER PNG RSVG SQLITE3 THREADS TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP XIM ZLIB