diff --git a/kittens/tui/operations.py b/kittens/tui/operations.py
index 74a0e35ec..3f64a67a7 100644
--- a/kittens/tui/operations.py
+++ b/kittens/tui/operations.py
@@ -166,11 +166,8 @@ def scroll_screen(amt: int = 1) -> str:
     return '\033[' + str(abs(amt)) + ('T' if amt < 0 else 'S')
 
 
-STANDARD_COLORS = {name: i for i, name in enumerate(
-    'black red green yellow blue magenta cyan gray'.split())}
-STANDARD_COLORS['white'] = STANDARD_COLORS['gray']
-UNDERLINE_STYLES = {name: i + 1 for i, name in enumerate(
-    'straight double curly'.split())}
+STANDARD_COLORS = {'black': 0, 'red': 1, 'green': 2, 'yellow': 3, 'blue': 4, 'magenta': 5, 'cyan': 6, 'gray': 7, 'white': 7}
+UNDERLINE_STYLES = {'straight': 1, 'double': 2, 'curly': 3, 'dotted': 4, 'dashed': 5}
 
 
 ColorSpec = Union[int, str, Color]
diff --git a/kitty/options/definition.py b/kitty/options/definition.py
index 8ff1efed2..5ab4474ab 100644
--- a/kitty/options/definition.py
+++ b/kitty/options/definition.py
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ opt('url_color', '#0087bd',
     option_type='to_color', ctype='color_as_int',
     long_text='''
 The color and style for highlighting URLs on mouse-over. :code:`url_style` can
-be one of: none, single, double, curly
+be one of: none, straight, double, curly, dotted, dashed
 '''
     )
 
diff --git a/kitty/options/utils.py b/kitty/options/utils.py
index d4d9848c1..a0de71533 100644
--- a/kitty/options/utils.py
+++ b/kitty/options/utils.py
@@ -500,15 +500,14 @@ def scrollback_pager_history_size(x: str) -> int:
     return min(ans, 4096 * 1024 * 1024 - 1)
 
 
+# "single" for backwards compat
+url_style_map = {'none': 0, 'single': 1, 'straight': 1, 'double': 2, 'curly': 3, 'dotted': 4, 'dashed': 5}
+
+
 def url_style(x: str) -> int:
     return url_style_map.get(x, url_style_map['curly'])
 
 
-url_style_map = {
-    v: i for i, v in enumerate('none single double curly'.split())
-}
-
-
 def url_prefixes(x: str) -> Tuple[str, ...]:
     return tuple(a.lower() for a in x.replace(',', ' ').split())