diff --git a/css/derekovecs.css b/css/derekovecs.css
index 5c814c7..a917092 100644
--- a/css/derekovecs.css
+++ b/css/derekovecs.css
@@ -94,6 +94,24 @@
     text-decoration: underline;
 }
 
+.somtext {
+    font-style: normal;
+    color: #333;
+}
+
+.somtext.merged {
+    font-style: italic;
+    color: #333;
+    fill: #333;
+}
+
+.somtext.target {
+    font-weight: bold;
+  animation: blink-animation 0.5s steps(5, start) 100;
+  -webkit-animation: blink-animation 1s steps(5, start) infinite;
+}
+
+a.target.merged {
 a.target {
     font-weight: bold;
   animation: blink-animation 0.5s steps(5, start) 100;
diff --git a/js/som.js b/js/som.js
index 7c5cca1..7786ae2 100644
--- a/js/som.js
+++ b/js/som.js
@@ -205,13 +205,16 @@
 		.append("text")
     .attr("text-anchor", "bottom")
     .attr("font-size", 12)
-    .attr("fill", function(d) {
-			if(data.target.indexOf(" "+d+" ") >= 0) {
-				return "blue";
-			} else {
-				return "#333"
-			}
-	  })
+    .attr("class", function(d, i) {
+      var c="somtext";
+      if(data.target.indexOf(" "+d+" ") >= 0) {
+        c += " target";
+      }
+      if(data.ranks[i] >= data.mergedEnd) {
+        c += " merged";
+      } 
+      return c;
+    })
     .text(function(d) { return d; });
   
     $('g.u a, g.tsnet a, td.paradigmator a').on('mousedown', function(e) {