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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
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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.

@Panda-Ma
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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

@Fatyoda3
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this is cool, I always felt sad that console output was completely bland, but this is so pretty

@prasoonkandel
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Thanks a lot <3

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