https://docs.gradle.org/5.2/release-notes.html announced TERM=mintty support.

I run Gradle 6.6.1 inside Cygwin mintty:

TERM=mintty gradle help --task wrapper

and I cannot see some text, like that is between \e[1m\e[97m and \e[m\e[K (I used GNU screen to record terminal output, \e is replacement for unprintable by 0x1B / ESCAPE):

Path
\e[1m\e[97m     :wrapper\e[m\e[K

Type
\e[1m\e[97m     Wrapper\e[m (org.gradle.api.tasks.wrapper.Wrapper)\e[K

Options
     \e[1m\e[97m--distribution-type\e[m     The type of the Gradle distribution to be used by the wrapper.\e[K

because I altered ~/.minttyrc to:

ForegroundColour=black
BackgroundColour=white

and \e[97m means to turn foreground to BRIGHT WHITE, the same as my BackgroundColour:

https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/html_node/Control-Sequences.html

ESC [ parameters m - 90..97 set foreground to bright versions of 30..37.

By default mintty terminal uses Black background but I have difficulty to look to white-on-black, instead for me the most disncinctive text is black on white.

Check manual: https://mintty.github.io/mintty.1.html