colors

• tools and basic grammar

  • from rgb

  • from rgba

  • from 256 colors

  • from hex

• ansi colors

  • xterm color code

  • RGB colors

  • tools

  • 256 color table

• color names

  • xterm 256 colors chart

  • 256 colors cheat sheet

• man page colors

  • settings

  • using vim as man pager

  • ansicolor issues in man page

• others

  • grep colors

  • generate color randomly

  • decolorize

reference:

• * 256 Colors Cheat Sheet

• * XTerm Color Cheat Sheet

• * colors.sh

• ThomasDickey/old-xterm

• scripts/color-chart

• * Bash tips: Colors and formatting (ANSI/VT100 Control sequences)

• Bash Colors

[!TIP]

• * iMarslo : git config colors

• foreground colors

  ┏━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
  ┃ ### ┃ GNOME TERMINAL          ┃ XTERM                   ┃ NON-GUI TTY           ┃
  ┡━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
  │  39 │ «reset this color»      │ «reset this color»      │ «reset this color»    │
  ├─────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
  │  30 │ very dark grey          │ black                   │ black                 │
  │  31 │ dull red                │ red                     │ light red             │
  │  32 │ dull green              │ light green             │ light green           │
  │  33 │ dull yellow             │ yellow                  │ yellow                │
  │  34 │ greyish blue            │ dark blue               │ sky blue              │
  │  35 │ dull purple             │ purple                  │ purple                │
  │  36 │ teal                    │ cyan                    │ cyan                  │
  │  37 │ light grey              │ light grey              │ light grey            │
  ├─────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
  │  90 │ dark grey               │ dull grey               │ dull grey             │
  │  91 │ red                     │ bright red              │ bright red            │
  │  92 │ lime green              │ bright green            │ bright green          │
  │  93 │ yellow                  │ bright yellow           │ pure yellow           │
  │  94 │ light greyish blue      │ dull blue               │ deep blue             │
  │  95 │ light purple            │ magenta                 │ magenta               │
  │  96 │ cyan                    │ bright cyan             │ bright cyan           │
  │  97 │ off white               │ white                   │ white                 │
  ├─────┴──────┬──────────────────┴─────────────────────────┴───────────────────────┤
  │ 38;2;ʀ;ɢ;ʙ │ replace ʀ, ɢ, and ʙ with RGB values from 0 to 255                  │
  │            │   for closest supported color (non-GUI TTY has only 16 colors!)    │
  │ 38;5;ɴ     │ replace ɴ with value from 256-color chart below                    │
  │            │   for closest supported color (non-GUI TTY has only 16 colors!)    │
  └────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

• background colors

┏━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ ### ┃ GNOME TERMINAL          ┃ XTERM                   ┃ NON-GUI TTY           ┃
┡━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│  49 │ «reset this color»      │ «reset this color»      │ «reset this color»    │
├─────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│  40 │ very dark grey          │ black                   │ black                 │
│  41 │ dull red                │ red                     │ light red             │
│  42 │ dull green              │ light green             │ light green           │
│  43 │ dull yellow             │ yellow                  │ yellow                │
│  44 │ greyish blue            │ dark blue               │ sky blue              │
│  45 │ dull purple             │ purple                  │ purple                │
│  46 │ teal                    │ cyan                    │ cyan                  │
│  47 │ light grey              │ light grey              │ light grey            │
├─────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼╶╴╶╴╶╴╶╴╶╴╶╴╶╴╶╴╶╴╶╴╶╴╶┤
│ 100 │ dark grey               │ dull grey               │ black                 │
│ 101 │ red                     │ bright red              │ light red             │
│ 102 │ lime green              │ bright green            │ light green           │
│ 103 │ yellow                  │ bright yellow           │ yellow                │
│ 104 │ light greyish blue      │ dull blue               │ sky blue              │
│ 105 │ light purple            │ magenta                 │ purple                │
│ 106 │ cyan                    │ bright cyan             │ cyan                  │
│ 107 │ off white               │ white                   │ light grey            │
├─────┴──────┬──────────────────┴─────────────────────────┴───────────────────────┤
│ 48;2;ʀ;ɢ;ʙ │ replace ʀ, ɢ, and ʙ with RGB values from 0 to 255                  │
│            │   for closest supported color (non-GUI TTY has only 8 colors!)     │
│ 48;5;ɴ     │ replace ɴ with value from 256-color chart below                    │
│            │   for closest supported color (non-GUI TTY has only 8 colors!)     │
└────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

• text styling

  ┏━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
  ┃ ### ┃ GNOME TERMINAL          ┃ XTERM                   ┃ NON-GUI TTY           ┃
  ┡━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
  │     │ «reset style+colors»    │ «reset style+colors»    │ «reset style+colors»  │
  │   0 │ «reset style+colors»    │ «reset style+colors»    │ «reset style+colors»  │
  ├─────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
  │   1 │ +bold, +brighter color  │ +bold, +brighter color  │ +brighter color,      │
  │     │                         │                         │   -forced grey        │
  │   2 │ +fainter color          │ +fainter color          │ +forced grey          │
  │   3 │ +italic                 │ +italic                 │ +forced green         │
  │     │                         │                         │   ● overrides 2 and 4 │
  │   4 │ +underline              │ +underline              │ +forced cyan          │
  │     │                         │                         │   ● overrides 2       │
  │   5 │ «no effect»             │ +blink                  │ «no effect»           │
  │   7 │ +invert colors          │ +invert colors          │ +invert colors        │
  │   8 │ +invisible              │ +invisible              │ «no effect»           │
  │     │                         │   ● underline appears   │                       │
  │   9 │ +strikethrough          │ +strikethrough          │ «no effect»           │
  ├─────┼─────────────────────────┤                         ├───────────────────────┤
  │  21 │ -bold, -brighter color, │ +double underline       │ -brighter color,      │
  │     │   -fainter color        ├─────────────────────────┤   -forced grey        │
  │  22 │ -bold, -brighter color, │ -bold, -brighter color, │ -brighter color,      │
  │     │   -fainter color        │   -fainter color        │   -forced grey        │
  │  23 │ -italic                 │ -italic                 │ -forced green         │
  │  24 │ -underline              │ -underline,             │ -forced cyan          │
  │     │                         │   -double underline     │                       │
  │  25 │ «no effect»             │ -blink                  │ «no effect»           │
  │  27 │ -invert colors          │ -invert colors          │ -invert colors        │
  │  28 │ -invisible              │ -invisible              │ «no effect»           │
  │  29 │ -strikethrough          │ -strikethrough          │ «no effect»           │
  └─────┴─────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┴───────────────────────┘

• Font Effects

  ┏━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
  ┃   Code  ┃            Effect            ┃                            Note                                        ┃
  ┡━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
  │    0    │ Reset / Normal               │ all attributes off                                                     │
  │    1    │ Bold or increased intensity  │                                                                        │
  │    2    │ Faint (decreased intensity)  │ Not widely supported.                                                  │
  │    3    │ Italic                       │ Not widely supported. Sometimes treated as inverse.                    │
  │    4    │ Underline                    │                                                                        │
  │    5    │ Slow Blink                   │ less than 150 per minute                                               │
  │    6    │ Rapid Blink                  │ MS-DOS ANSI.SYS; 150+ per minute; not widely supported                 │
  │    7    │ [[reverse video]]            │ swap foreground and background colors                                  │
  │    8    │ Conceal                      │ Not widely supported.                                                  │
  │    9    │ Crossed-out                  │ Characters legible, but marked for deletion. Not widely supported.     │
  │    10   │ Primary(default) font        │                                                                        │
  │  11–19  │ Alternate font               │ Select alternate font n-10                                             │
  │    20   │ Fraktur                      │ hardly ever supported                                                  │
  │    21   │ Bold off or Double Underline │ Bold off not widely supported; double underline hardly ever supported. │
  │    22   │ Normal color or intensity    │ Neither bold nor faint                                                 │
  │    23   │ Not italic, not Fraktur      │                                                                        │
  │    24   │ Underline off                │ Not singly or doubly underlined                                        │
  │    25   │ Blink off                    │                                                                        │
  │    27   │ Inverse off                  │                                                                        │
  │    28   │ Reveal                       │ conceal off                                                            │
  │    29   │ Not crossed out              │                                                                        │
  │  30–37  │ Set foreground color         │ See color table below                                                  │
  │    38   │ Set foreground color         │ Next arguments are 5;<n> or 2;<r>;<g>;<b>, see below                   │
  │    39   │ Default foreground color     │ implementation defined (according to standard)                         │
  │  40–47  │ Set background color         │ See color table below                                                  │
  │    48   │ Set background color         │ Next arguments are 5;<n> or 2;<r>;<g>;<b>, see below                   │
  │    49   │ Default background color     │ implementation defined (according to standard)                         │
  │    51   │ Framed                       │                                                                        │
  │    52   │ Encircled                    │                                                                        │
  │    53   │ Overlined                    │                                                                        │
  │    54   │ Not framed or encircled      │                                                                        │
  │    55   │ Not overlined                │                                                                        │
  │    60   │ ideogram underline           │ hardly ever supported                                                  │
  │    61   │ ideogram double underline    │ hardly ever supported                                                  │
  │    62   │ ideogram overline            │ hardly ever supported                                                  │
  │    63   │ ideogram double overline     │ hardly ever supported                                                  │
  │    64   │ ideogram stress marking      │ hardly ever supported                                                  │
  │    65   │ ideogram attributes off      │ reset the effects of all of 60-64                                      │
  │  90–97  │ Set bright foreground color  │ aixterm (not in standard)                                              │
  │ 100–107 │ Set bright background color  │                                                                        │
  └─────────┴──────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

• quick show colors:

  $ for i in {0..255}; do echo -e "\033[38;5;${i}m $i \033[0m"; done

tools and basic grammar

[!NOTE|label:references:]

• termstandard/colors

• ANSI escape code

• * iMarslo: icolor.sh

• * iMarslo: marslo/color-utils.sh

• * fromhex() & tohex()

• escape sequence

	BASH	HEX	OCTAL	NOTE
start	\e	\x1b	\033
start	\E	\x1B	-	x cannot be capital
end	\e[0m	\x1b[0m	\033[0m
end	\e[m	\x1b[m	\033[m	0 is appended if you omit it

• normal & bright

  $ for (( i = 30; i < 38; i++ )); do
    echo -e "\033[0;"$i"m Normal: (0;$i); \033[1;"$i"m Light: (1;$i)";
  done

  

from rgb

[!NOTE|label:references:]

• rgbToAnsi256(r, g, b)

• rgb to hex

  # @author : Anthony Bourdain | https://stackoverflow.com/a/55073732/2940319
  # @usage  :
  # - `rgbtohex 17 0 26` ==> 1001A
  # - `rgbtohex -h 17 0 26` ==> #1001A
  function rgbtohex () {
    addleadingzero () { awk '{if(length($0)<2){printf "0";} print $0;}';}
    if [[ ${1} == "-h" ]]; then
      r=${2}; g=${3}; b=${4};h='#';
    else
      r=${1}; g=${2}; b=${3};h='';
    fi
    r=$(echo "obase=16; ${r}" | bc | addleadingzero)
    g=$(echo "obase=16; ${g}" | bc | addleadingzero)
    b=$(echo "obase=16; ${b}" | bc | addleadingzero)
    echo "${h}${r}${g}${b}"
  }

• rgb to 256colors

  # @author : Anthony Bourdain | https://stackoverflow.com/a/55073732/2940319
  # @usage  :
  # - `rgbto256 0 95, 135` ==> 22
  function rgbto256 () {
    echo "define trunc(x){auto os;os=scale;scale=0;x/=1;scale=os;return x;};" \
      "16 + 36 * trunc(${1}/51) + 6 * trunc(${2}/51) +" \
      " trunc(${3}/51)" | bc
    # XTerm Color Number = 16 + 36 * R + 6 * G + B | 0 <= R,G,B <= 5
  }

• rgb to hsv

from rgba

[!NOTE|label:references:]

• Convert RGBA color to RGB

• Convert RGBA to RGB taking background into consideration [duplicate]

• How to convert RGBA to Hex color code using javascript

• Convert RGB to RGBA over white

• Convert RGBA to RGB in Python

• Alpha compositing

• tools

  • Converter for rgba/hsla-colors into hexadecimal-value

• to rgb

  [!NOTE|label:references:]

  alpha     = 1 - RGBA.alpha;
  RGB.red   = Math.round((RGBA.alpha * (RGBA.red / 255) + (alpha * (bg.red / 255))) * 255);
  RGB.green = Math.round((RGBA.alpha * (RGBA.green / 255) + (alpha * (bg.green / 255))) * 255);
  RGB.blue  = Math.round((RGBA.alpha * (RGBA.blue / 255) + (alpha * (bg.blue / 255))) * 255);

from 256 colors

• xColorTable | original

  $ xColorTable 30 45 100
  30  = rgb(0, 135, 135)   => #008787
  45  = rgb(0, 215, 255)   => #00D7FF
  100 = rgb(135, 135, 0)   => #878700

  
• 256color to hex

  tohex(){
    dec=$(($1%256))   ### input must be a number in range 0-255.
    if [ "$dec" -lt "16" ]; then
      bas=$(( dec%16 ))
      mul=128
      [ "$bas" -eq "7" ] && mul=192
      [ "$bas" -eq "8" ] && bas=7
      [ "$bas" -gt "8" ] && mul=255
      a="$((  (bas&1)    *mul ))"
      b="$(( ((bas&2)>>1)*mul ))"
      c="$(( ((bas&4)>>2)*mul ))"
      printf 'dec= %3s basic= #%02x%02x%02x\n' "$dec" "$a" "$b" "$c"
    elif [ "$dec" -gt 15 ] && [ "$dec" -lt 232 ]; then
      b=$(( (dec-16)%6  )); b=$(( b==0?0: b*40 + 55 ))
      g=$(( (dec-16)/6%6)); g=$(( g==0?0: g*40 + 55 ))
      r=$(( (dec-16)/36 )); r=$(( r==0?0: r*40 + 55 ))
      printf 'dec= %3s color= #%02x%02x%02x\n' "$dec" "$r" "$g" "$b"
    else
      gray=$(( (dec-232)*10+8 ))
      printf 'dec= %3s  gray= #%02x%02x%02x\n' "$dec" "$gray" "$gray" "$gray"
    fi
  }
  
  for i in $(seq 0 255); do
      tohex ${i}
  done

from hex

• hex to 256colors

  fromhex(){
    hex=${1#"#"}
    r=$(printf '0x%0.2s' "$hex")
    g=$(printf '0x%0.2s' ${hex#??})
    b=$(printf '0x%0.2s' ${hex#????})
    printf '%03d' "$(( (r<75?0:(r-35)/40)*6*6 +
                       (g<75?0:(g-35)/40)*6   +
                       (b<75?0:(b-35)/40)     + 16 ))"
  }
  
  # verify
  $ xColorTable 30
  30  = rgb(0, 135, 135)   => #008787
  
  $ fromhex 008787
  030
  $ fromhex 008766
  029
  $ fromhex 008788
  030

• hex to rgb

  # @author : Anthony Bourdain | https://stackoverflow.com/a/55073732/2940319
  # @usage  :
  # - `hexttorgb "11001A" ==> 17 0 26
  # - `hexttorgb "#11001A" ==> 17 0 26
  function hextorgb () {
    hexinput=$(echo "${1}" | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]')           # uppercase-ing
    hexinput=$(echo "${hexinput}" | tr -d '#')                     # remove Hash if needed
    a=$(echo "${hexinput}" | cut -c-2)
    b=$(echo "${hexinput}" | cut -c3-4)
    c=$(echo "${hexinput}" | cut -c5-6)
    r=$(echo "ibase=16; ${a}" | bc)
    g=$(echo "ibase=16; ${b}" | bc)
    b=$(echo "ibase=16; ${c}" | bc)
    echo "${r} ${g} ${b}"
  }

ansi colors

[!NOTE|label:references:]

• How to have multiple colors in a Windows batch file?

• How to get the RGB values of a 256-color palette terminal color

• kenny-kvibe/ansi_colors.sh

• * iMarslo: icolor.sh

xterm color code

• echo

  #                 0 - 255
  #                    v
  $ echo -e "\033[38;5;3mhello world\033[0m"
  
  # for all
  $ for i in {0..255}; do echo -e "\033[38;5;${i}m $i \033[0m"; done

• printf

  #         ╭─ \b      Write a <backspace> character.
  #         ╷            0 - 255
  #         v               v
  $ printf "%-10b" "\e[38;5;3m**text**\e[0m"
  
  # or ignore `%b`
  $ printf "\e[38;5;3m**text**\e[0m"

• tput

  [!NOTE|label:references::]

  • * iMarslo: linux/nutshell

  • * 256 colors

  • Colours and Cursor Movement With tput

  • tput: Portable Terminal Control

  • use cases:

    • * iMarslo: fman()

    • * iMarslo: PS1

  #          0 - 255                       reset
  #            v                             v
  $ tput setaf 30; echo "hello world"; tput sgr0
  # or
  $ echo -e "$(tput setaf 30)hello world$(tput sgr0)"
  
  # more
  $ tput setaf 30 | command cat -A
  ^[[38;5;30m

  • background color

    $ echo $(tput setab 214)256 $(tput setab 202)colors

  • to show color table

    $ for c in {0..255}; do tput setaf $c; tput setaf $c | command cat -v; echo =$c; done

  • show current terminal support

    $ tput colors
    256

RGB colors

[!NOTE|label:references:]

• * iMarslo : git » config » colors

• * iMarslo: math » number conversion » to decimal

• echo

  # #689d6a
  #                       ╭─ R(decimal)         : 104 : `$ echo -n "obase=10;ibase=16; 68" | bc`
  #                       ╷   ╭─ G(decimal)     : 157 : `$ echo -n "obase=10;ibase=16; 9D" | bc`
  #                       ╷   ╷   ╭─ B(decimal) : 106 : `$ echo -n "obase=10;ibase=16; 6A" | bc`
  #                      --- --- ---
  $ echo -e '\x1b[3;38;2;104;157;106m hello world \x1b[m'
  #               -      --- --- ---
  #               ╵      68  9D  6A
  #               ╰─ SGR (Select Graphic Rendition) parameters ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code ):
  #                      0 reset/normal ; 1 bold      ; 2 dim/faint ;
  #                      3 italic       ; 4 underline ; 5 blink     ;
  #                      7 reverse      ; 8 hidden
  
  # or
  $ echo $(git config --get-color "" "#689d6a italic") color test $(git config --get-color "" reset) | command cat -A
  ^[[3;38;2;104;157;106m color test ^[[m$
  #         --- --- ---
  #         68  9D  6A   : hex
  #         104 157 106  : decimal

• printf

  $ hextorgb '#6A5ACD'
  106 90 205
  
  #                        6A  5A CD
  #                        --- -- ---
  $ printf "%b" '\x1b[38;2;106;90;205m-hello world-\x1b[0m'
  
  # omit %b
  $ printf '\x1b[38;2;106;90;205m-hello world-\x1b[0m'

• for PS1

  [!NOTE|label:references:]

  • Using ANSI Color Codes to Colorize Your Bash Prompt on Linux

  # additioanl \[ and \] for PS1 only
  #  ^                     ^
  #  --                    --
  R='\[\e[38;2;255;100;100m\]'
  G='\[\e[38;2;100;255;100m\]'
  B='\[\e[38;2;100;100;255m\]'
  W='\[\e[0m\]'
  PS1="[$R\u$W@$B\h$W:$G\w$W]\$ "

• RGB for both foreground and background

  # 38;2;R;G;B
  # 48;2;R;G;B
  $ echo -e "\033[38;2;255;100;100mhello world\033[0m"
  $ echo -e "\033[48;2;255;100;100mhello world\033[0m"
  
  #                 38;2;R;G;B     48;2;R;G;B
  #               v------------v v-------------v
  $ echo -e "\033[38;2;155;106;0;48;2;255;100;100mhello world\033[0m"
  
  # https://web.archive.org/web/20131009193526/http://bitmote.com/index.php?post/2012/11/19/Using-ANSI-Color-Codes-to-Colorize-Your-Bash-Prompt-on-Linux
  $ echo -e "testing \033[38;5;196;48;5;21mCOLOR1\033[38;5;208;48;5;159mCOLOR2\033[m"

tools

• fidian/ansi

  # install
  $ [[ ! -f /opt/ansi ]] && curl -sL git.io/ansi -o /opt/ansi
  $ chmod +x /opt/ansi
  $ ln -sf /opt/ansi /usr/local/bin/ansi
  
  # usage
  $ ansi --color-table
  $ ansi --color-codes

  

  ansi color codes
• bash-colors c()

  # install
  $ curl -o /opt/bash-colors.sh -fsSL https://github.com/ppo/bash-colors/blob/master/bash-colors.sh
  $ echo "[[ -f \"/opt/bash-colors.sh\" ]] && source \"/opt/bash-colors.sh\" >> ~/.bashrc"
  
  # or using source code directly
  # shellcheck disable=SC2015,SC2059
  c() { [ $# == 0 ] && printf "\e[0m" || printf "$1" | sed 's/\(.\)/\1;/g;s/\([SDIUFNHT]\)/2\1/g;s/\([KRGYBMCW]\)/3\1/g;s/\([krgybmcw]\)/4\1/g;y/SDIUFNHTsdiufnhtKRGYBMCWkrgybmcw/12345789123457890123456701234567/;s/^\(.*\);$/\\e[\1m/g'; }
  # shellcheck disable=SC2086
  cecho() { echo -e "$(c $1)${2}\e[0m"; }
  
  # sample
  $ echo -e "$(c Gs)bold green$(c) and $(c i)Italic$(c) and normal"

  
• say()

say() { echo "$@" | sed -e "s/((@(red|green|yellow|blue|magenta|cyan|white|reset|b|u))+)[[]{2}(.*)[]]{2}/\1\4@reset/g" -e "s/@red/$(tput setaf 1)/g" -e "s/@green/$(tput setaf 2)/g" -e "s/@yellow/$(tput setaf 3)/g" -e "s/@blue/$(tput setaf 4)/g" -e "s/@magenta/$(tput setaf 5)/g" -e "s/@cyan/$(tput setaf 6)/g" -e "s/@white/$(tput setaf 7)/g" -e "s/@reset/$(tput sgr0)/g" -e "s/@b/$(tput bold)/g" -e "s/@u/$(tput sgr 0 1)/g" }

example

$ say @b@green[[Success]] $ say @b@yellowWARNING @red..message..

![say()](../screenshot/colors/ansi/ansi-color-say.png)

- [RGBcolor](https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/124409/29178)
```bash
function RGBcolor {
  echo "16 + $1 * 36 + $2 * 6 + $3" | bc
}

fg=$(RGBcolor 1 0 2)  # Violet
bg=$(RGBcolor 5 3 0)  # Bright orange.

echo -e "\\033[1;38;5;$fg;48;5;${bg}mviolet on tangerine\\033[0m"

• terminal-colors | eikenb/terminal-colors

  $ python3 -m pip install terminal-colors
  
  # usage
  $ terminal-colors -l
  $ terminal-colors -n
  $ terminal-colors -n -p

  

  
• colored

  # install
  $ python3 -m pip install colored
  
  # usage
  $ colored --help
  $ colored --color-codes

• topic: ansi-colors

  • trapd00r/colorcoke

  • shakibamoshiri/bline

256 color table

[!NOTE|label:references:]

• xterm 256color chart.svg

• color grid

• 256 colors

  function 256colors() {
    local bar='█'                                          # ctrl+v -> u2588 ( full block )
    if uname -r | grep -q "microsoft"; then bar='▌'; fi    # ctrl+v -> u258c ( left half block )
    for i in {0..255}; do
      echo -e "\e[38;05;${i}m${bar}${i}";
    done | column -c 180 -s ' ';
    echo -e "\e[m"
  }

  

  #!/bin/bash
  
  # This program is free software. It comes without any warranty, to
  # the extent permitted by applicable law. You can redistribute it
  # and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want
  # To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See
  # http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING for more details.
  
  for fgbg in 38 48 ; do # Foreground / Background
      for color in {0..255} ; do # Colors
          # Display the color
          printf "\e[${fgbg};5;%sm  %3s  \e[0m" $color $color
          # Display 6 colors per lines
          if [ $((($color + 1) % 6)) == 4 ] ; then
              echo # New line
          fi
      done
      echo # New line
  done
  exit 0

  
• colors and formatting

reference:

• 256-colors.sh

#!/bin/sh

# From: https://misc.flogisoft.com/bash/tip_colors_and_formatting#colors2
# Modified by [e-mail] to work in Alpine Linux ash

# This program is free software. It comes without any warranty, to
# the extent permitted by applicable law. You can redistribute it
# and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want
# To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See
# http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING for more details.

for clbg in {40..47} {100..107} 49 ; do   # background
  for clfg in {30..37} {90..97} 39 ; do   # foreground
    for attr in 0 1 2 3 4 5 7 ; do        # formatting
      #Print the result
      echo -en "\e[${attr};${clbg};${clfg}m ^[${attr};${clbg};${clfg}m \e[0m"
    done
    echo                                  # newline
  done
done
exit 0

for attr in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do
  echo "------------------------------------------------"
  printf "ESC[%s;Foreground;Background - \n" $attr
  for fore in 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37; do
      for back in 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47; do
          printf '\033[%s;%s;%sm %02s;%02s\033[0m' $attr $fore $back $fore $back
      done
  printf '\n'
  done
  printf '\033[0m'
done

• showColors

  # @author : https://stackoverflow.com/a/69648792/2940319
  # @usage  :
  #   - `showcolors fg` : default
  #   - `showcolors bg`
  # @alternative: `ansi --color-codes`
  function showcolors() {
    local row col blockrow blockcol red green blue
    local showcolor=_showcolor_${1:-fg}
    local white="\033[1;37m"
    local reset="\033[0m"
  
    echo -e "set foreground color: \\\\033[38;5;${white}NNN${reset}m"
    echo -e "set background color: \\\\033[48;5;${white}NNN${reset}m"
    echo -e "reset color & style:  \\\\033[0m"
    echo
  
    echo 16 standard color codes:
    for row in {0..1}; do
      for col in {0..7}; do
        $showcolor $(( row*8 + col )) "${row}"
      done
      echo
    done
    echo
  
    echo 6·6·6 RGB color codes:
    for blockrow in {0..2}; do
      for red in {0..5}; do
        for blockcol in {0..1}; do
          green=$(( blockrow*2 + blockcol ))
          for blue in {0..5}; do
            $showcolor $(( red*36 + green*6 + blue + 16 )) $green
          done
          echo -n "  "
        done
        echo
      done
      echo
    done
  
    echo 24 grayscale color codes:
    for row in {0..1}; do
      for col in {0..11}; do
        $showcolor $(( row*12 + col + 232 )) "${row}"
      done
      echo
    done
    echo
  }
  
  function _showcolor_fg() {
    # shellcheck disable=SC2155
    local code=$( printf %03d "$1" )
    echo -ne "\033[38;5;${code}m"
    echo -nE " $code "
    echo -ne "\033[0m"
  }
  
  function _showcolor_bg() {
    if (( $2 % 2 == 0 )); then
      echo -ne "\033[1;37m"
    else
      echo -ne "\033[0;30m"
    fi
    # shellcheck disable=SC2155
    local code=$( printf %03d "$1" )
    echo -ne "\033[48;5;${code}m"
    echo -nE " $code "
    echo -ne "\033[0m"
  }

  
• colorgrid

  function colorgrid() {
      iter=16
      while [ $iter -lt 52 ]
      do
          second=$[$iter+36]
          third=$[$second+36]
          four=$[$third+36]
          five=$[$four+36]
          six=$[$five+36]
          seven=$[$six+36]
          if [ $seven -gt 250 ];then seven=$[$seven-251]; fi
  
          echo -en "\033[38;5;$(echo $iter)m█ "
          printf "%03d" $iter
          echo -en "   \033[38;5;$(echo $second)m█ "
          printf "%03d" $second
          echo -en "   \033[38;5;$(echo $third)m█ "
          printf "%03d" $third
          echo -en "   \033[38;5;$(echo $four)m█ "
          printf "%03d" $four
          echo -en "   \033[38;5;$(echo $five)m█ "
          printf "%03d" $five
          echo -en "   \033[38;5;$(echo $six)m█ "
          printf "%03d" $six
          echo -en "   \033[38;5;$(echo $seven)m█ "
          printf "%03d" $seven
  
          iter=$[$iter+1]
          printf '\r\n'
      done
  }

• solarized color

  #!/bin/bash
  
  # solarized ansicolors (exporting for grins)
  export base03='\033[0;30;40m'
  export base02='\033[1;30;40m'
  export base01='\033[0;32;40m'
  export base00='\033[0;33;40m'
  export base0='\033[0;34;40m'
  export base1='\033[0;36;40m'
  export base2='\033[0;37;40m'
  export base3='\033[1;37;40m'
  export yellow='\033[1;33;40m'
  export orange='\033[0;31;40m'
  export red='\033[1;31;40m'
  export magenta='\033[1;35;40m'
  export violet='\033[0;35;40m'
  export blue='\033[1;34;40m'
  export cyan='\033[1;36;40m'
  export green='\033[1;32;40m'
  export reset='\033[0m'
  
  colors () {
    echo -e "base03  ${base03}Test$reset"
    echo -e "base02  ${base02}Test$reset"
    echo -e "base01  ${base01}Test$reset"
    echo -e "base00  ${base00}Test$reset"
    echo -e "base0   ${base0}Test$reset"
    echo -e "base1   ${base1}Test$reset"
    echo -e "base2   ${base2}Test$reset"
    echo -e "base3   ${base3}Test$reset"
    echo -e "yellow  ${yellow}Test$reset"
    echo -e "orange  ${orange}Test$reset"
    echo -e "red     ${red}Test$reset"
    echo -e "magenta ${magenta}Test$reset"
    echo -e "violet  ${violet}Test$reset"
    echo -e "blue    ${blue}Test$reset"
    echo -e "cyan    ${cyan}Test$reset"
    echo -e "green   ${green}Test$reset"
  }
  colors

  

  solarized colors

color names

[!TIP|label:references:]

• Web colors

• The 256 color table and its partitioning

• blue

  
• brown

  
• cyan

  
• gray.black

  
• green

  
• orange

  
• pink

  
• purple.magenta

  
• red

  
• white

  
• yellow

  

xterm 256 colors chart

[!NOTE|label:references:]

• * Color names

• * Web colors

256 colors cheat sheet

XTERM NUMBER	XTERM NAME	HEX	RGB	HSL	ANSI COLOR CODE
0	black Black (SYSTEM)	#000000	rgb(0,0,0)	hsl(0,0%,0%)	\e[38;5;0m
1	red Maroon (SYSTEM)	#800000	rgb(128,0,0)	hsl(0,100%,25%)	\e[38;5;1m
2	green Green (SYSTEM)	#008000	rgb(0,128,0)	hsl(120,100%,25%)	\e[38;5;2m
3	yellow Olive (SYSTEM)	#808000	rgb(128,128,0)	hsl(60,100%,25%)	\e[38;5;3m
4	blue Navy (SYSTEM)	#000080	rgb(0,0,128)	hsl(240,100%,25%)	\e[38;5;4m
5	magenta Purple (SYSTEM)	#800080	rgb(128,0,128)	hsl(300,100%,25%)	\e[38;5;5m
6	cyan Teal (SYSTEM)	#008080	rgb(0,128,128)	hsl(180,100%,25%)	\e[38;5;6m
7	light_gray Silver (SYSTEM)	#c0c0c0	rgb(192,192,192)	hsl(0,0%,75%)	\e[38;5;7m
8	dark_gray Grey (SYSTEM)	#808080	rgb(128,128,128)	hsl(0,0%,50%)	\e[38;5;8m
9	light_red Red (SYSTEM)	#ff0000	rgb(255,0,0)	hsl(0,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;9m
10	light_green Lime (SYSTEM)	#00ff00	rgb(0,255,0)	hsl(120,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;10m
11	light_yellow Yellow (SYSTEM)	#ffff00	rgb(255,255,0)	hsl(60,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;11m
12	light_blue Blue (SYSTEM)	#0000ff	rgb(0,0,255)	hsl(240,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;12m
13	light_magenta Fuchsia (SYSTEM)	#ff00ff	rgb(255,0,255)	hsl(300,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;13m
14	light_cyan Aqua (SYSTEM)	#00ffff	rgb(0,255,255)	hsl(180,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;14m
15	white White (SYSTEM)	#ffffff	rgb(255,255,255)	hsl(0,0%,100%)	\e[38;5;15m
16	grey_0 Grey0	#000000	rgb(0,0,0)	hsl(0,0%,0%)	\e[38;5;16m
17	navy_blue NavyBlue	#00005f	rgb(0,0,95)	hsl(240,100%,18%)	\e[38;5;17m
18	dark_blue DarkBlue	#000087	rgb(0,0,135)	hsl(240,100%,26%)	\e[38;5;18m
19	blue_3a Blue3	#0000af	rgb(0,0,175)	hsl(240,100%,34%)	\e[38;5;19m
20	blue_3b Blue3	#0000d7	rgb(0,0,215)	hsl(240,100%,42%)	\e[38;5;20m
21	blue_1 Blue1	#0000ff	rgb(0,0,255)	hsl(240,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;21m
22	dark_green DarkGreen	#005f00	rgb(0,95,0)	hsl(120,100%,18%)	\e[38;5;22m
23	deep_sky_blue_4a DeepSkyBlue4	#005f5f	rgb(0,95,95)	hsl(180,100%,18%)	\e[38;5;23m
24	deep_sky_blue_4b DeepSkyBlue4	#005f87	rgb(0,95,135)	hsl(97,100%,26%)	\e[38;5;24m
25	deep_sky_blue_4c DeepSkyBlue4	#005faf	rgb(0,95,175)	hsl(07,100%,34%)	\e[38;5;25m
26	dodger_blue_3 DodgerBlue3	#005fd7	rgb(0,95,215)	hsl(13,100%,42%)	\e[38;5;26m
27	dodger_blue_2 DodgerBlue2	#005fff	rgb(0,95,255)	hsl(17,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;27m
28	green_4 Green4	#008700	rgb(0,135,0)	hsl(120,100%,26%)	\e[38;5;28m
29	spring_green_4 SpringGreen4	#00875f	rgb(0,135,95)	hsl(62,100%,26%)	\e[38;5;29m
30	turquoise_4 Turquoise4	#008787	rgb(0,135,135)	hsl(180,100%,26%)	\e[38;5;30m
31	deep_sky_blue_3a DeepSkyBlue3	#0087af	rgb(0,135,175)	hsl(93,100%,34%)	\e[38;5;31m
32	deep_sky_blue_3b DeepSkyBlue3	#0087d7	rgb(0,135,215)	hsl(02,100%,42%)	\e[38;5;32m
33	dodger_blue_1 DodgerBlue1	#0087ff	rgb(0,135,255)	hsl(08,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;33m
34	green_3a Green3	#00af00	rgb(0,175,0)	hsl(120,100%,34%)	\e[38;5;34m
35	spring_green_3a SpringGreen3	#00af5f	rgb(0,175,95)	hsl(52,100%,34%)	\e[38;5;35m
36	dark_cyan DarkCyan	#00af87	rgb(0,175,135)	hsl(66,100%,34%)	\e[38;5;36m
37	light_sea_green LightSeaGreen	#00afaf	rgb(0,175,175)	hsl(180,100%,34%)	\e[38;5;37m
38	deep_sky_blue_2 DeepSkyBlue2	#00afd7	rgb(0,175,215)	hsl(91,100%,42%)	\e[38;5;38m
39	deep_sky_blue_1 DeepSkyBlue1	#00afff	rgb(0,175,255)	hsl(98,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;39m
40	green_3b Green3	#00d700	rgb(0,215,0)	hsl(120,100%,42%)	\e[38;5;40m
41	spring_green_3b SpringGreen3	#00d75f	rgb(0,215,95)	hsl(46,100%,42%)	\e[38;5;41m
42	spring_green_2a SpringGreen2	#00d787	rgb(0,215,135)	hsl(57,100%,42%)	\e[38;5;42m
43	cyan_3 Cyan3	#00d7af	rgb(0,215,175)	hsl(68,100%,42%)	\e[38;5;43m
44	dark_turquoise DarkTurquoise	#00d7d7	rgb(0,215,215)	hsl(180,100%,42%)	\e[38;5;44m
45	turquoise_2 Turquoise2	#00d7ff	rgb(0,215,255)	hsl(89,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;45m
46	green_1 Green1	#00ff00	rgb(0,255,0)	hsl(120,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;46m
47	spring_green_2b SpringGreen2	#00ff5f	rgb(0,255,95)	hsl(42,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;47m
48	spring_green_1 SpringGreen1	#00ff87	rgb(0,255,135)	hsl(51,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;48m
49	medium_spring_green MediumSpringGreen	#00ffaf	rgb(0,255,175)	hsl(61,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;49m
50	cyan_2 Cyan2	#00ffd7	rgb(0,255,215)	hsl(70,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;50m
51	cyan_1 Cyan1	#00ffff	rgb(0,255,255)	hsl(180,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;51m
52	dark_red_1 DarkRed	#5f0000	rgb(95,0,0)	hsl(0,100%,18%)	\e[38;5;52m
53	deep_pink_4a DeepPink4	#5f005f	rgb(95,0,95)	hsl(300,100%,18%)	\e[38;5;53m
54	purple_4a Purple4	#5f0087	rgb(95,0,135)	hsl(82,100%,26%)	\e[38;5;54m
55	purple_4b Purple4	#5f00af	rgb(95,0,175)	hsl(72,100%,34%)	\e[38;5;55m
56	purple_3 Purple3	#5f00d7	rgb(95,0,215)	hsl(66,100%,42%)	\e[38;5;56m
57	blue_violet BlueViolet	#5f00ff	rgb(95,0,255)	hsl(62,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;57m
58	orange_4a Orange4	#5f5f00	rgb(95,95,0)	hsl(60,100%,18%)	\e[38;5;58m
59	grey_37 Grey37	#5f5f5f	rgb(95,95,95)	hsl(0,0%,37%)	\e[38;5;59m
60	medium_purple_4 MediumPurple4	#5f5f87	rgb(95,95,135)	hsl(240,17%,45%)	\e[38;5;60m
61	slate_blue_3a SlateBlue3	#5f5faf	rgb(95,95,175)	hsl(240,33%,52%)	\e[38;5;61m
62	slate_blue_3b SlateBlue3	#5f5fd7	rgb(95,95,215)	hsl(240,60%,60%)	\e[38;5;62m
63	royal_blue_1 RoyalBlue1	#5f5fff	rgb(95,95,255)	hsl(240,100%,68%)	\e[38;5;63m
64	chartreuse_4 Chartreuse4	#5f8700	rgb(95,135,0)	hsl(7,100%,26%)	\e[38;5;64m
65	dark_sea_green_4a DarkSeaGreen4	#5f875f	rgb(95,135,95)	hsl(120,17%,45%)	\e[38;5;65m
66	pale_turquoise_4 PaleTurquoise4	#5f8787	rgb(95,135,135)	hsl(180,17%,45%)	\e[38;5;66m
67	steel_blue SteelBlue	#5f87af	rgb(95,135,175)	hsl(210,33%,52%)	\e[38;5;67m
68	steel_blue_3 SteelBlue3	#5f87d7	rgb(95,135,215)	hsl(220,60%,60%)	\e[38;5;68m
69	cornflower_blue CornflowerBlue	#5f87ff	rgb(95,135,255)	hsl(225,100%,68%)	\e[38;5;69m
70	chartreuse_3a Chartreuse3	#5faf00	rgb(95,175,0)	hsl(7,100%,34%)	\e[38;5;70m
71	dark_sea_green_4b DarkSeaGreen4	#5faf5f	rgb(95,175,95)	hsl(120,33%,52%)	\e[38;5;71m
72	cadet_blue_2 CadetBlue	#5faf87	rgb(95,175,135)	hsl(150,33%,52%)	\e[38;5;72m
73	cadet_blue_1 CadetBlue	#5fafaf	rgb(95,175,175)	hsl(180,33%,52%)	\e[38;5;73m
74	sky_blue_3 SkyBlue3	#5fafd7	rgb(95,175,215)	hsl(200,60%,60%)	\e[38;5;74m
75	steel_blue_1a SteelBlue1	#5fafff	rgb(95,175,255)	hsl(210,100%,68%)	\e[38;5;75m
76	chartreuse_3b Chartreuse3	#5fd700	rgb(95,215,0)	hsl(3,100%,42%)	\e[38;5;76m
77	pale_green_3a PaleGreen3	#5fd75f	rgb(95,215,95)	hsl(120,60%,60%)	\e[38;5;77m
78	sea_green_3 SeaGreen3	#5fd787	rgb(95,215,135)	hsl(140,60%,60%)	\e[38;5;78m
79	aquamarine_3 Aquamarine3	#5fd7af	rgb(95,215,175)	hsl(160,60%,60%)	\e[38;5;79m
80	medium_turquoise MediumTurquoise	#5fd7d7	rgb(95,215,215)	hsl(180,60%,60%)	\e[38;5;80m
81	steel_blue_1b SteelBlue1	#5fd7ff	rgb(95,215,255)	hsl(195,100%,68%)	\e[38;5;81m
82	chartreuse_2a Chartreuse2	#5fff00	rgb(95,255,0)	hsl(7,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;82m
83	sea_green_2 SeaGreen2	#5fff5f	rgb(95,255,95)	hsl(120,100%,68%)	\e[38;5;83m
84	sea_green_1a SeaGreen1	#5fff87	rgb(95,255,135)	hsl(135,100%,68%)	\e[38;5;84m
85	sea_green_1b SeaGreen1	#5fffaf	rgb(95,255,175)	hsl(150,100%,68%)	\e[38;5;85m
86	aquamarine_1a Aquamarine1	#5fffd7	rgb(95,255,215)	hsl(165,100%,68%)	\e[38;5;86m
87	dark_slate_gray_2 DarkSlateGray2	#5fffff	rgb(95,255,255)	hsl(180,100%,68%)	\e[38;5;87m
88	dark_red_2 DarkRed	#870000	rgb(135,0,0)	hsl(0,100%,26%)	\e[38;5;88m
89	deep_pink_4b DeepPink4	#87005f	rgb(135,0,95)	hsl(17,100%,26%)	\e[38;5;89m
90	dark_magenta_1 DarkMagenta	#870087	rgb(135,0,135)	hsl(300,100%,26%)	\e[38;5;90m
91	dark_magenta_2 DarkMagenta	#8700af	rgb(135,0,175)	hsl(86,100%,34%)	\e[38;5;91m
92	dark_violet_1a DarkViolet	#8700d7	rgb(135,0,215)	hsl(77,100%,42%)	\e[38;5;92m
93	purple_1a Purple	#8700ff	rgb(135,0,255)	hsl(71,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;93m
94	orange_4b Orange4	#875f00	rgb(135,95,0)	hsl(2,100%,26%)	\e[38;5;94m
95	light_pink_4 LightPink4	#875f5f	rgb(135,95,95)	hsl(0,17%,45%)	\e[38;5;95m
96	plum_4 Plum4	#875f87	rgb(135,95,135)	hsl(300,17%,45%)	\e[38;5;96m
97	medium_purple_3a MediumPurple3	#875faf	rgb(135,95,175)	hsl(270,33%,52%)	\e[38;5;97m
98	medium_purple_3b MediumPurple3	#875fd7	rgb(135,95,215)	hsl(260,60%,60%)	\e[38;5;98m
99	slate_blue_1 SlateBlue1	#875fff	rgb(135,95,255)	hsl(255,100%,68%)	\e[38;5;99m
100	yellow_4a Yellow4	#878700	rgb(135,135,0)	hsl(60,100%,26%)	\e[38;5;100m
101	wheat_4 Wheat4	#87875f	rgb(135,135,95)	hsl(60,17%,45%)	\e[38;5;101m
102	grey_53 Grey53	#878787	rgb(135,135,135)	hsl(0,0%,52%)	\e[38;5;102m
103	light_slate_grey LightSlateGrey	#8787af	rgb(135,135,175)	hsl(240,20%,60%)	\e[38;5;103m
104	medium_purple MediumPurple	#8787d7	rgb(135,135,215)	hsl(240,50%,68%)	\e[38;5;104m
105	light_slate_blue LightSlateBlue	#8787ff	rgb(135,135,255)	hsl(240,100%,76%)	\e[38;5;105m
106	yellow_4b Yellow4	#87af00	rgb(135,175,0)	hsl(3,100%,34%)	\e[38;5;106m
107	dark_olive_green_3a DarkOliveGreen3	#87af5f	rgb(135,175,95)	hsl(90,33%,52%)	\e[38;5;107m
108	dark_green_sea DarkSeaGreen	#87af87	rgb(135,175,135)	hsl(120,20%,60%)	\e[38;5;108m
109	light_sky_blue_3a LightSkyBlue3	#87afaf	rgb(135,175,175)	hsl(180,20%,60%)	\e[38;5;109m
110	light_sky_blue_3b LightSkyBlue3	#87afd7	rgb(135,175,215)	hsl(210,50%,68%)	\e[38;5;110m
111	sky_blue_2 SkyBlue2	#87afff	rgb(135,175,255)	hsl(220,100%,76%)	\e[38;5;111m
112	chartreuse_2b Chartreuse2	#87d700	rgb(135,215,0)	hsl(2,100%,42%)	\e[38;5;112m
113	dark_olive_green_3b DarkOliveGreen3	#87d75f	rgb(135,215,95)	hsl(100,60%,60%)	\e[38;5;113m
114	pale_green_3b PaleGreen3	#87d787	rgb(135,215,135)	hsl(120,50%,68%)	\e[38;5;114m
115	dark_sea_green_3a DarkSeaGreen3	#87d7af	rgb(135,215,175)	hsl(150,50%,68%)	\e[38;5;115m
116	dark_slate_gray_3 DarkSlateGray3	#87d7d7	rgb(135,215,215)	hsl(180,50%,68%)	\e[38;5;116m
117	sky_blue_1 SkyBlue1	#87d7ff	rgb(135,215,255)	hsl(200,100%,76%)	\e[38;5;117m
118	chartreuse_1 Chartreuse1	#87ff00	rgb(135,255,0)	hsl(8,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;118m
119	light_green_2 LightGreen	#87ff5f	rgb(135,255,95)	hsl(105,100%,68%)	\e[38;5;119m
120	light_green_3 LightGreen	#87ff87	rgb(135,255,135)	hsl(120,100%,76%)	\e[38;5;120m
121	pale_green_1a PaleGreen1	#87ffaf	rgb(135,255,175)	hsl(140,100%,76%)	\e[38;5;121m
122	aquamarine_1b Aquamarine1	#87ffd7	rgb(135,255,215)	hsl(160,100%,76%)	\e[38;5;122m
123	dark_slate_gray_1 DarkSlateGray1	#87ffff	rgb(135,255,255)	hsl(180,100%,76%)	\e[38;5;123m
124	red_3a Red3	#af0000	rgb(175,0,0)	hsl(0,100%,34%)	\e[38;5;124m
125	deep_pink_4c DeepPink4	#af005f	rgb(175,0,95)	hsl(27,100%,34%)	\e[38;5;125m
126	medium_violet_red MediumVioletRed	#af0087	rgb(175,0,135)	hsl(13,100%,34%)	\e[38;5;126m
127	magenta_3a Magenta3	#af00af	rgb(175,0,175)	hsl(300,100%,34%)	\e[38;5;127m
128	dark_violet_1b DarkViolet	#af00d7	rgb(175,0,215)	hsl(88,100%,42%)	\e[38;5;128m
129	purple_1b Purple	#af00ff	rgb(175,0,255)	hsl(81,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;129m
130	dark_orange_3a DarkOrange3	#af5f00	rgb(175,95,0)	hsl(2,100%,34%)	\e[38;5;130m
131	indian_red_1a IndianRed	#af5f5f	rgb(175,95,95)	hsl(0,33%,52%)	\e[38;5;131m
132	hot_pink_3a HotPink3	#af5f87	rgb(175,95,135)	hsl(330,33%,52%)	\e[38;5;132m
133	medium_orchid_3 MediumOrchid3	#af5faf	rgb(175,95,175)	hsl(300,33%,52%)	\e[38;5;133m
134	medium_orchid MediumOrchid	#af5fd7	rgb(175,95,215)	hsl(280,60%,60%)	\e[38;5;134m
135	medium_purple_2a MediumPurple2	#af5fff	rgb(175,95,255)	hsl(270,100%,68%)	\e[38;5;135m
136	dark_goldenrod DarkGoldenrod	#af8700	rgb(175,135,0)	hsl(6,100%,34%)	\e[38;5;136m
137	light_salmon_3a LightSalmon3	#af875f	rgb(175,135,95)	hsl(30,33%,52%)	\e[38;5;137m
138	rosy_brown RosyBrown	#af8787	rgb(175,135,135)	hsl(0,20%,60%)	\e[38;5;138m
139	grey_63 Grey63	#af87af	rgb(175,135,175)	hsl(300,20%,60%)	\e[38;5;139m
140	medium_purple_2b MediumPurple2	#af87d7	rgb(175,135,215)	hsl(270,50%,68%)	\e[38;5;140m
141	medium_purple_1 MediumPurple1	#af87ff	rgb(175,135,255)	hsl(260,100%,76%)	\e[38;5;141m
142	gold_3a Gold3	#afaf00	rgb(175,175,0)	hsl(60,100%,34%)	\e[38;5;142m
143	dark_khaki DarkKhaki	#afaf5f	rgb(175,175,95)	hsl(60,33%,52%)	\e[38;5;143m
144	navajo_white_3 NavajoWhite3	#afaf87	rgb(175,175,135)	hsl(60,20%,60%)	\e[38;5;144m
145	grey_69 Grey69	#afafaf	rgb(175,175,175)	hsl(0,0%,68%)	\e[38;5;145m
146	light_steel_blue_3 LightSteelBlue3	#afafd7	rgb(175,175,215)	hsl(240,33%,76%)	\e[38;5;146m
147	light_steel_blue LightSteelBlue	#afafff	rgb(175,175,255)	hsl(240,100%,84%)	\e[38;5;147m
148	yellow_3a Yellow3	#afd700	rgb(175,215,0)	hsl(1,100%,42%)	\e[38;5;148m
149	dark_olive_green_3 DarkOliveGreen3	#afd75f	rgb(175,215,95)	hsl(80,60%,60%)	\e[38;5;149m
150	dark_sea_green_3b DarkSeaGreen3	#afd787	rgb(175,215,135)	hsl(90,50%,68%)	\e[38;5;150m
151	dark_sea_green_2 DarkSeaGreen2	#afd7af	rgb(175,215,175)	hsl(120,33%,76%)	\e[38;5;151m
152	light_cyan_3 LightCyan3	#afd7d7	rgb(175,215,215)	hsl(180,33%,76%)	\e[38;5;152m
153	light_sky_blue_1 LightSkyBlue1	#afd7ff	rgb(175,215,255)	hsl(210,100%,84%)	\e[38;5;153m
154	green_yellow GreenYellow	#afff00	rgb(175,255,0)	hsl(8,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;154m
155	dark_olive_green_2 DarkOliveGreen2	#afff5f	rgb(175,255,95)	hsl(90,100%,68%)	\e[38;5;155m
156	pale_green_1b PaleGreen1	#afff87	rgb(175,255,135)	hsl(100,100%,76%)	\e[38;5;156m
157	dark_sea_green_5b DarkSeaGreen2	#afffaf	rgb(175,255,175)	hsl(120,100%,84%)	\e[38;5;157m
158	dark_sea_green_5a DarkSeaGreen1	#afffd7	rgb(175,255,215)	hsl(150,100%,84%)	\e[38;5;158m
159	pale_turquoise_1 PaleTurquoise1	#afffff	rgb(175,255,255)	hsl(180,100%,84%)	\e[38;5;159m
160	red_3b Red3	#d70000	rgb(215,0,0)	hsl(0,100%,42%)	\e[38;5;160m
161	deep_pink_3a DeepPink3	#d7005f	rgb(215,0,95)	hsl(33,100%,42%)	\e[38;5;161m
162	deep_pink_3b DeepPink3	#d70087	rgb(215,0,135)	hsl(22,100%,42%)	\e[38;5;162m
163	magenta_3b Magenta3	#d700af	rgb(215,0,175)	hsl(11,100%,42%)	\e[38;5;163m
164	magenta_3c Magenta3	#d700d7	rgb(215,0,215)	hsl(300,100%,42%)	\e[38;5;164m
165	magenta_2a Magenta2	#d700ff	rgb(215,0,255)	hsl(90,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;165m
166	dark_orange_3b DarkOrange3	#d75f00	rgb(215,95,0)	hsl(6,100%,42%)	\e[38;5;166m
167	indian_red_1b IndianRed	#d75f5f	rgb(215,95,95)	hsl(0,60%,60%)	\e[38;5;167m
168	hot_pink_3b HotPink3	#d75f87	rgb(215,95,135)	hsl(340,60%,60%)	\e[38;5;168m
169	hot_pink_2 HotPink2	#d75faf	rgb(215,95,175)	hsl(320,60%,60%)	\e[38;5;169m
170	orchid Orchid	#d75fd7	rgb(215,95,215)	hsl(300,60%,60%)	\e[38;5;170m
171	medium_orchid_1a MediumOrchid1	#d75fff	rgb(215,95,255)	hsl(285,100%,68%)	\e[38;5;171m
172	orange_3 Orange3	#d78700	rgb(215,135,0)	hsl(7,100%,42%)	\e[38;5;172m
173	light_salmon_3b LightSalmon3	#d7875f	rgb(215,135,95)	hsl(20,60%,60%)	\e[38;5;173m
174	light_pink_3 LightPink3	#d78787	rgb(215,135,135)	hsl(0,50%,68%)	\e[38;5;174m
175	pink_3 Pink3	#d787af	rgb(215,135,175)	hsl(330,50%,68%)	\e[38;5;175m
176	plum_3 Plum3	#d787d7	rgb(215,135,215)	hsl(300,50%,68%)	\e[38;5;176m
177	violet Violet	#d787ff	rgb(215,135,255)	hsl(280,100%,76%)	\e[38;5;177m
178	gold_3b Gold3	#d7af00	rgb(215,175,0)	hsl(8,100%,42%)	\e[38;5;178m
179	light_goldenrod_3 LightGoldenrod3	#d7af5f	rgb(215,175,95)	hsl(40,60%,60%)	\e[38;5;179m
180	tan Tan	#d7af87	rgb(215,175,135)	hsl(30,50%,68%)	\e[38;5;180m
181	misty_rose_3 MistyRose3	#d7afaf	rgb(215,175,175)	hsl(0,33%,76%)	\e[38;5;181m
182	thistle_3 Thistle3	#d7afd7	rgb(215,175,215)	hsl(300,33%,76%)	\e[38;5;182m
183	plum_2 Plum2	#d7afff	rgb(215,175,255)	hsl(270,100%,84%)	\e[38;5;183m
184	yellow_3b Yellow3	#d7d700	rgb(215,215,0)	hsl(60,100%,42%)	\e[38;5;184m
185	khaki_3 Khaki3	#d7d75f	rgb(215,215,95)	hsl(60,60%,60%)	\e[38;5;185m
186	light_goldenrod_2a LightGoldenrod2	#d7d787	rgb(215,215,135)	hsl(60,50%,68%)	\e[38;5;186m
187	light_yellow_3 LightYellow3	#d7d7af	rgb(215,215,175)	hsl(60,33%,76%)	\e[38;5;187m
188	grey_84 Grey84	#d7d7d7	rgb(215,215,215)	hsl(0,0%,84%)	\e[38;5;188m
189	light_steel_blue_1 LightSteelBlue1	#d7d7ff	rgb(215,215,255)	hsl(240,100%,92%)	\e[38;5;189m
190	yellow_2 Yellow2	#d7ff00	rgb(215,255,0)	hsl(9,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;190m
191	dark_olive_green_1a DarkOliveGreen1	#d7ff5f	rgb(215,255,95)	hsl(75,100%,68%)	\e[38;5;191m
192	dark_olive_green_1b DarkOliveGreen1	#d7ff87	rgb(215,255,135)	hsl(80,100%,76%)	\e[38;5;192m
193	dark_sea_green_1 DarkSeaGreen1	#d7ffaf	rgb(215,255,175)	hsl(90,100%,84%)	\e[38;5;193m
194	honeydew_2 Honeydew2	#d7ffd7	rgb(215,255,215)	hsl(120,100%,92%)	\e[38;5;194m
195	light_cyan_1 LightCyan1	#d7ffff	rgb(215,255,255)	hsl(180,100%,92%)	\e[38;5;195m
196	red_1 Red1	#ff0000	rgb(255,0,0)	hsl(0,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;196m
197	deep_pink_2 DeepPink2	#ff005f	rgb(255,0,95)	hsl(37,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;197m
198	deep_pink_1a DeepPink1	#ff0087	rgb(255,0,135)	hsl(28,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;198m
199	deep_pink_1b DeepPink1	#ff00af	rgb(255,0,175)	hsl(18,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;199m
200	magenta_2b Magenta2	#ff00d7	rgb(255,0,215)	hsl(09,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;200m
201	magenta_1 Magenta1	#ff00ff	rgb(255,0,255)	hsl(300,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;201m
202	orange_red_1 OrangeRed1	#ff5f00	rgb(255,95,0)	hsl(2,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;202m
203	indian_red_1c IndianRed1	#ff5f5f	rgb(255,95,95)	hsl(0,100%,68%)	\e[38;5;203m
204	indian_red_1d IndianRed1	#ff5f87	rgb(255,95,135)	hsl(345,100%,68%)	\e[38;5;204m
205	hot_pink_1a HotPink	#ff5faf	rgb(255,95,175)	hsl(330,100%,68%)	\e[38;5;205m
206	hot_pink_1b HotPink	#ff5fd7	rgb(255,95,215)	hsl(315,100%,68%)	\e[38;5;206m
207	medium_orchid_1b MediumOrchid1	#ff5fff	rgb(255,95,255)	hsl(300,100%,68%)	\e[38;5;207m
208	dark_orange DarkOrange	#ff8700	rgb(255,135,0)	hsl(1,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;208m
209	salmon_1 Salmon1	#ff875f	rgb(255,135,95)	hsl(15,100%,68%)	\e[38;5;209m
210	light_coral LightCoral	#ff8787	rgb(255,135,135)	hsl(0,100%,76%)	\e[38;5;210m
211	pale_violet_red_1 PaleVioletRed1	#ff87af	rgb(255,135,175)	hsl(340,100%,76%)	\e[38;5;211m
212	orchid_2 Orchid2	#ff87d7	rgb(255,135,215)	hsl(320,100%,76%)	\e[38;5;212m
213	orchid_1 Orchid1	#ff87ff	rgb(255,135,255)	hsl(300,100%,76%)	\e[38;5;213m
214	orange_1 Orange1	#ffaf00	rgb(255,175,0)	hsl(1,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;214m
215	sandy_brown SandyBrown	#ffaf5f	rgb(255,175,95)	hsl(30,100%,68%)	\e[38;5;215m
216	light_salmon_1 LightSalmon1	#ffaf87	rgb(255,175,135)	hsl(20,100%,76%)	\e[38;5;216m
217	light_pink_1 LightPink1	#ffafaf	rgb(255,175,175)	hsl(0,100%,84%)	\e[38;5;217m
218	pink_1 Pink1	#ffafd7	rgb(255,175,215)	hsl(330,100%,84%)	\e[38;5;218m
219	plum_1 Plum1	#ffafff	rgb(255,175,255)	hsl(300,100%,84%)	\e[38;5;219m
220	gold_1 Gold1	#ffd700	rgb(255,215,0)	hsl(0,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;220m
221	light_goldenrod_2b LightGoldenrod2	#ffd75f	rgb(255,215,95)	hsl(45,100%,68%)	\e[38;5;221m
222	light_goldenrod_2c LightGoldenrod2	#ffd787	rgb(255,215,135)	hsl(40,100%,76%)	\e[38;5;222m
223	navajo_white_1 NavajoWhite1	#ffd7af	rgb(255,215,175)	hsl(30,100%,84%)	\e[38;5;223m
224	misty_rose1 MistyRose1	#ffd7d7	rgb(255,215,215)	hsl(0,100%,92%)	\e[38;5;224m
225	thistle_1 Thistle1	#ffd7ff	rgb(255,215,255)	hsl(300,100%,92%)	\e[38;5;225m
226	yellow_1 Yellow1	#ffff00	rgb(255,255,0)	hsl(60,100%,50%)	\e[38;5;226m
227	light_goldenrod_1 LightGoldenrod1	#ffff5f	rgb(255,255,95)	hsl(60,100%,68%)	\e[38;5;227m
228	khaki_1 Khaki1	#ffff87	rgb(255,255,135)	hsl(60,100%,76%)	\e[38;5;228m
229	wheat_1 Wheat1	#ffffaf	rgb(255,255,175)	hsl(60,100%,84%)	\e[38;5;229m
230	cornsilk_1 Cornsilk1	#ffffd7	rgb(255,255,215)	hsl(60,100%,92%)	\e[38;5;230m
231	grey_100 Grey100	#ffffff	rgb(255,255,255)	hsl(0,0%,100%)	\e[38;5;231m
232	grey_3 Grey3	#080808	rgb(8,8,8)	hsl(0,0%,3%)	\e[38;5;232m
233	grey_7 Grey7	#121212	rgb(18,18,18)	hsl(0,0%,7%)	\e[38;5;233m
234	grey_11 Grey11	#1c1c1c	rgb(28,28,28)	hsl(0,0%,10%)	\e[38;5;234m
235	grey_15 Grey15	#262626	rgb(38,38,38)	hsl(0,0%,14%)	\e[38;5;235m
236	grey_19 Grey19	#303030	rgb(48,48,48)	hsl(0,0%,18%)	\e[38;5;236m
237	grey_23 Grey23	#3a3a3a	rgb(58,58,58)	hsl(0,0%,22%)	\e[38;5;237m
238	grey_27 Grey27	#444444	rgb(68,68,68)	hsl(0,0%,26%)	\e[38;5;238m
239	grey_30 Grey30	#4e4e4e	rgb(78,78,78)	hsl(0,0%,30%)	\e[38;5;239m
240	grey_35 Grey35	#585858	rgb(88,88,88)	hsl(0,0%,34%)	\e[38;5;240m
241	grey_39 Grey39	#626262	rgb(98,98,98)	hsl(0,0%,37%)	\e[38;5;241m
242	grey_42 Grey42	#6c6c6c	rgb(108,108,108)	hsl(0,0%,40%)	\e[38;5;242m
243	grey_46 Grey46	#767676	rgb(118,118,118)	hsl(0,0%,46%)	\e[38;5;243m
244	grey_50 Grey50	#808080	rgb(128,128,128)	hsl(0,0%,50%)	\e[38;5;244m
245	grey_54 Grey54	#8a8a8a	rgb(138,138,138)	hsl(0,0%,54%)	\e[38;5;245m
246	grey_58 Grey58	#949494	rgb(148,148,148)	hsl(0,0%,58%)	\e[38;5;246m
247	grey_62 Grey62	#9e9e9e	rgb(158,158,158)	hsl(0,0%,61%)	\e[38;5;247m
248	grey_66 Grey66	#a8a8a8	rgb(168,168,168)	hsl(0,0%,65%)	\e[38;5;248m
249	grey_70 Grey70	#b2b2b2	rgb(178,178,178)	hsl(0,0%,69%)	\e[38;5;249m
250	grey_74 Grey74	#bcbcbc	rgb(188,188,188)	hsl(0,0%,73%)	\e[38;5;250m
251	grey_78 Grey78	#c6c6c6	rgb(198,198,198)	hsl(0,0%,77%)	\e[38;5;251m
252	grey_82 Grey82	#d0d0d0	rgb(208,208,208)	hsl(0,0%,81%)	\e[38;5;252m
253	grey_85 Grey85	#dadada	rgb(218,218,218)	hsl(0,0%,85%)	\e[38;5;253m
254	grey_89 Grey89	#e4e4e4	rgb(228,228,228)	hsl(0,0%,89%)	\e[38;5;254m
255	grey_93 Grey93	#eeeeee	rgb(238,238,238)	hsl(0,0%,93%)	\e[38;5;255m

man page colors

references:

• Bug 666587 - Some man pages include partial escape codes in output when piped or redirected

• Bug 81003 - xman displays terminal control sequences

• How to install man pages on CentOS Linux 6/7/8

• Using Color with less

• Colors in Man Pages

• How to View Colored Man Pages in Linux?

• Documentation on LESS_TERMCAP_* variables?

settings

• printf

  # The color of man page
  export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$(printf "\\e[1;31m")         # begin blinding
  export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$(printf "\\e[1;31m")         # begin bold
  export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$(printf "\\e[0m")            # end mode
  export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$(printf "\\e[0m")            # end stadout-mode
  export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$(printf "\\e[1;44;33m")      # begin stadout-mode - info box
  export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$(printf "\\e[1;33m")      # begin stadout-mode - info box
  export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$(printf "\\e[0m")            # end underline
  export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$(printf "\\e[1;32m")         # begin underline
  export GROFF_NO_SGR=1         # For Konsole and Gnome-terminal
  export LESS='-eirMXR'
  export SYSTEMD_LESS=FRXMK
  export MANPAGER='less -s -M +Gg'

• tput

  export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$(tput bold; tput setaf 2) # green
  export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$(tput bold; tput setaf 6) # cyan
  export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$(tput sgr0)
  export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$(tput bold; tput setaf 3; tput setab 4) # yellow on blue
  export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$(tput rmso; tput sgr0)
  export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$(tput smul; tput bold; tput setaf 7) # white
  export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$(tput rmul; tput sgr0)
  export LESS_TERMCAP_mr=$(tput rev)
  export LESS_TERMCAP_mh=$(tput dim)
  export LESS_TERMCAP_ZN=$(tput ssubm)
  export LESS_TERMCAP_ZV=$(tput rsubm)
  export LESS_TERMCAP_ZO=$(tput ssupm)
  export LESS_TERMCAP_ZW=$(tput rsupm)
  export GROFF_NO_SGR=1         # For Konsole and Gnome-terminal

- $'\e'
  ```bash
  export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\e[01;31m'       # begin blinking
  export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\e[01;37m'       # begin bold
  export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\e[0m'           # end all mode like so, us, mb, md, mr
  export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\e[0m'           # end standout-mode
  export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\e[45;93m'       # start standout mode
  export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\e[0m'           # end underline
  export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\e[4;93m'        # start underlining

using vim as man pager

[!TIP]

• Using vim as a man-page viewer under Unix

export PAGER="/bin/sh -c \"unset PAGER;col -b -x | \
    vim -R -c 'set ft=man nomod nolist' -c 'map q :q<CR>' \
    -c 'map <SPACE> <C-D>' -c 'map b <C-U>' \
    -c 'nmap K :Man <C-R>=expand(\\\"<cword>\\\")<CR><CR>' -\""

ansicolor issues in man page

• error

  1mNAME0m       <-- BAD
         man - an interface to the on-line reference manuals
  
  1mSYNOPSIS0m   <-- BAD
         1mman  22m[1m-C  4m22mfile24m]  [1m-d22m]  [1m-D22m]  <-- BAD

• solution

  $ yum install man-pages man-db man
  
  # or
  $ sudo yum update man-pages man-db man

others

[!TIP]

• The 5 Best Color Picker Apps for Mac

grep colors

[!NOTE|label:grep_colors]

• Modifying the color of grep

$ export GREP_COLORS="ms=01;31;49:mc=01;31:sl=0;36:cx=:fn=35:ln=32:bn=32:se=36"
$ echo $GREP_COLORS
ms=01;31;49:mc=01;31:sl=0;36:cx=:fn=35:ln=32:bn=32:se=36

generate color randomly

$ echo "#$(openssl rand -hex 3)"
# or
$ hexdump -n 3 -v -e '"#" 3/1 "%02X" "\n"' /dev/urandom

# sample
$ echo -e "$(trueHexPrint $(echo "#$(openssl rand -hex 3)"))aaa\x1b[0m"

decolorize

[!NOTE|label:decolorize]

• Removing colors from output

$ command | sed -r "s/\x1B\[(([0-9]+)(;[0-9]+)*)?[mGKHfJ]//g"
# or
$ command | sed -r "s/\x1B\[[0-9;]*[JKmsu]//g"

# alias
alias decolorize='sed -r "s/\x1B\[(([0-9]+)(;[0-9]+)*)?[mGKHfJ]//g"'