The entire table of ANSI color codes.

bash-colors.md

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 Intensity

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 Intensity

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 Intensity backgrounds

Value	Color
\e[0;100m	Black
\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

other styles

echo -e "\e[1mbold\e[0m"
echo -e "\e[3mitalic\e[0m"
echo -e "\e[3m\e[1mbold italic\e[0m"
echo -e "\e[4munderline\e[0m"
echo -e "\e[9mstrikethrough\e[0m"
echo -e "\e[31mHello World\e[0m"
echo -e "\x1B[31mHello World\e[0m"

color-test.sh

#!/bin/sh
printf "\e[0;30mBlack \e[1;30mbold Black \e[0;90mhigh intensity Black\n"
printf "\e[0;31mRed \e[1;31mbold Red \e[0;91mhigh intensity Red\n"
printf "\e[0;32mGreen \e[1;32mbold Green \e[0;92mhigh intensity Green\n"
printf "\e[0;33mYellow \e[1;33mbold Yellow \e[0;93mhigh intensity Yellow\n"
printf "\e[0;34mBlue \e[1;34mbold Blue \e[0;94mhigh intensity Blue\n"
printf "\e[0;35mPurple \e[1;35mbold Purple \e[0;95mhigh intensity Purple\n"
printf "\e[0;36mCyan \e[1;36mbold Cyan \e[0;96mhigh intensity Cyan\n"
printf "\e[0;37mWhite \e[1;37mbold White \e[0;97mhigh intensity White\n"

  ColorNames=( Black Red Green Yellow Blue Magenta Cyan White )
  FgColors=(    30   31   32    33     34   35      36   37  )
  BgColors=(    40   41   42    43     44   45      46   47  )


printf " \033[0m$modifiedfiles_number""x\e[41m●\033[0m"

I also found this helpful to see a few more color codes in putty.

http://jafrog.com/2013/11/23/colors-in-terminal.html

> for code in {0..255}
    do echo -e "\e[38;5;${code}m"'\\e[38;5;'"$code"m"\e[0m"
  done

https://github.com/fidian/ansi

pls add dark red

@Gamer069 Background or font color red?

\e[38;5;88m or \e[38;5;52m for font

Thanks

I need pink font color in terminal, please add it

upd:
I found a solution to my problem. I was able to link in the answer of the arNparad0x. In order to use 256 colors from tables, you need to prefix 38;5 in front. For example: i got pink by adding a line \e[38;5;212m

How to get light grey?

@Reynolds21 Try these

\e[38;5;248m
\e[38;5;249m
\e[38;5;250m
\e[38;5;251m

use this
and,

---

for foreground:
\e[38;5;123m or \\033[38;5;123m

---

for background:
\e[48;5;123m or \\033[48;5;123m

---

change 123 to the color-code you need

---

example:

echo -e "\\033[38;5;15mGit\\033[38;5;0m\\033[48;5;208mhub\\033[0m"

Is there italic with colors?
Because if I add \033[3m, there's no italic and the colors are inverted.

@warriorCavt

echo -e "\e[1mbold\e[0m"
echo -e "\e[3mitalic\e[0m"
echo -e "\e[3m\e[1mbold italic\e[0m"
echo -e "\e[4munderline\e[0m"
echo -e "\e[9mstrikethrough\e[0m"
echo -e "\e[31mHello World\e[0m"
echo -e "\x1B[31mHello World\e[0m"

Maybe you’d like to replace "Intensty" with "Intensity". Thank you for this nice gist

@call-nick Good catch! I updated that.

In case anyone wonders what the names mean:

printf "\e[0;30mBlack\n"
printf "\e[0;31mRed\n"
printf "\e[0;32mGreen\n"
printf "\e[0;33mYellow\n"
printf "\e[0;34mBlue\n"
printf "\e[0;35mPurple\n"
printf "\e[0;36mCyan\n"
printf "\e[0;37mWhite\n"

printf "\e[1;30mbold Black\n"
printf "\e[1;31mbold Red\n"
printf "\e[1;32mbold Green\n"
printf "\e[1;33mbold Yellow\n"
printf "\e[1;34mbold Blue\n"
printf "\e[1;35mbold Purple\n"
printf "\e[1;36mbold Cyan\n"
printf "\e[1;37mbold White\n"

printf "\e[0;90mhigh intensity Black\n"
printf "\e[0;91mhigh intensity Red\n"
printf "\e[0;92mhigh intensity Green\n"
printf "\e[0;93mhigh intensity Yellow\n"
printf "\e[0;94mhigh intensity Blue\n"
printf "\e[0;95mhigh intensity Purple\n"
printf "\e[0;96mhigh intensity Cyan\n"
printf "\e[0;97mhigh intensity White\n"

And it looks like

what can i use for c++ code to change color of text or background

@youssefelalem See the examples at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4842424/list-of-ansi-color-escape-sequences

# Try this one-liner
for x in {0..5}; do echo --- && for z in 0 10 60 70; do for y in {30..37}; do y=$((y + z)) && printf '\e[%d;%dm%-12s\e[0m' "$x" "$y" "$(printf ' \\e[%d;%dm] ' "$x" "$y")" && printf ' '; done && printf '\n'; done; done

Basic 8 Colors

Is there a recognized code for 'overline' ("opposite" of underline)?

@tbrowder

No that is not supported. You can use only unicode for that.

Thanks so much.

Thank you everyone for your help here. I have spent the last 4 hours learning from these links here.
:)

love it, thank you.

Good Resource!
ANSI styles I use fairly often (mainly for tests) and just updated: styles.js
View the styles in the "Run tests" section of this github action

Very good and useful! Just wanting to notice that in some language \e make an error. In this case you have to use \033.