TERM for small bw monitor?

[Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

I have an 8" bw monitor I use on a spare box.  With the normal
TERM=linux, some things aren't readable (e.g. some things on man pages)
because 'dim' is dark.  Short of working out a setterm recipe, does
anyone know of a TERM setting I can uses that only does white,
bright-white, and black?  If I use TERM=dumb, I only get white and black
and no curses.

Thanks,

Doug.