Custom font color for Powershell output

Question

Let's take the powershell command Write-Host "red text" -Fore red this displays "red text" in a foreground of red.
But, you want the text to be displayed in a slightly lighter font color, light red.

Is there a way to do this and get any foreground color (and background) in the RGB spectrum using powershell?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 27 '21 at 16:33

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See this: https://github.com/PoshCode/Pansies
It is a PowerShell module that does this. There is an issue here related to your question: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/14588
Please click the above link for more information.

answered Jan 27 '21 at 16:33

AdamJane23

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Алексей Семенов · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-11T02:34:35.360

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$PSVersionTable.PSVersion

Major  Minor  Patch  PreReleaseLabel BuildLabel
-----  -----  -----  --------------- ----------
7      1      0

(0..256).ForEach{write-host "`e[38;5;$($_)m[$_]"} # background color
(0..256).ForEach{write-host "`e[48;5;$($_)m[$_]"} # Foreground color

edited Jan 11 '21 at 02:34

answered Jan 10 '21 at 03:33

Алексей Семенов

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you may want to add a note that this requires a console that can use ANSI escape sequences. as an example, the default windows 7 console does not support such. [*grin*] – Lee_Dailey Jan 10 '21 at 03:41
I don't even know if I want it – Алексей Семенов Jan 10 '21 at 03:45
Thanks, this worked! Is there a way to do this for background too? I tried to do something like ```write-host "`e[7;6;$(60)m[60]"``` but that resulted in a really weird alternating background. – Kudos Jan 10 '21 at 17:42
Can you please explain how this works? In particular the code in the quotes? – martorad Oct 04 '21 at 07:14

Custom font color for Powershell output

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