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The entire table of ANSI color codes.

Regular Colors

Value Color
\e[0;30m Black
\e[0;31m Red
\e[0;32m Green
\e[0;33m Yellow
\e[0;34m Blue
\e[0;35m Purple
\e[0;36m Cyan
\e[0;37m White

Bold

Value Color
\e[1;30m Black
\e[1;31m Red
\e[1;32m Green
\e[1;33m Yellow
\e[1;34m Blue
\e[1;35m Purple
\e[1;36m Cyan
\e[1;37m White

Underline

Value Color
\e[4;30m Black
\e[4;31m Red
\e[4;32m Green
\e[4;33m Yellow
\e[4;34m Blue
\e[4;35m Purple
\e[4;36m Cyan
\e[4;37m White

Background

Value Color
\e[40m Black
\e[41m Red
\e[42m Green
\e[43m Yellow
\e[44m Blue
\e[45m Purple
\e[46m Cyan
\e[47m White

High Intensty

Value Color
\e[0;90m Black
\e[0;91m Red
\e[0;92m Green
\e[0;93m Yellow
\e[0;94m Blue
\e[0;95m Purple
\e[0;96m Cyan
\e[0;97m White

Bold High Intensty

Value Color
\e[1;90m Black
\e[1;91m Red
\e[1;92m Green
\e[1;93m Yellow
\e[1;94m Blue
\e[1;95m Purple
\e[1;96m Cyan
\e[1;97m White

High Intensty backgrounds

Value Color
\e[0;100m Black/Gray
\e[0;101m Red
\e[0;102m Green
\e[0;103m Yellow
\e[0;104m Blue
\e[0;105m Purple
\e[0;106m Cyan
\e[0;107m White

Reset

Value Color
\e[0m Reset
@ch3repatz
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Thanks a lot!

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kasvith commented Apr 7, 2017

Can you add gray ?

@cbrt4
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cbrt4 commented Aug 13, 2017

Great thing!

@chaos201388
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Awesome!

@jesusjimsa
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Thank you :D

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gmelgar1 commented Mar 8, 2018

Hi that´s Great, but what should I do to keep in memory that color?

@StephenRHarris
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very nice. Thanks. ☺

@shchoi82
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very good

@lemonkey
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Helpful, thanks.

@RabaDabaDoba
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Check out my fork! Made a header file for C with the colors!

@angela-d
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Thanks for sharing!

@gabbygobln
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Very helpful

@dai-ichy
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👍

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rbrook commented Nov 16, 2018

Very useful. Thanks!

@nparashar150
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That is so much good while coding. xD

@ThisWalkingDead
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NB

@SolindekDev
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Nice but please add gray...

@ajay-develops
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It's awesome, took me a while to understand as I'm a newbie in programming.

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Panda-Ma commented Aug 5, 2022

good job

@tchisama
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thank you

@MayowaObisesan
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👍

@AugustinMauroy
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Thanks!

@RabaDabaDoba
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@ChewSW28
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Gray is actually High Intensity Black

@iamnewton
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@HIFun-cws stated, there is no gray, but some terminals will display things as gray; here's the white paper

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this is cool, I always felt sad that console output was completely bland, but this is so pretty

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