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Terminal colors cheat sheet
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cheatsheet.txt
"WTF IS \033[30;47m???", a practical cheat-sheet
Font color definitions can be intimidating and nonsense at first,
but it is quite easy, lets just follow character by character:
┌────────┤\033├── Escape character (ESC)
│┌───────┤ [ ├── Define a sequence (many characters in a code)
││
││┌──────┤ X ├── Parameter (optional) ┐
│││┌─────┤ ; ├── Parameter separator │ SGR Code
││││┌────┤ Y ├── Parameter (optional) │ "Select Graphic Rendition"
│││││┌───┤ m ├── SGR Code ┘
││││││
││││││ ┌───────────┬───────────┐ ┌─────────────────────┐
\033[X;Ym │ Normal │ Bright │ │ Styles │
├─────┬─────┼─────┬─────┤ ├───┬─────────────────┤
│ FG │ BG │ FG │ BG │ │ 0 │ Reset / Normal │
┌─────────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┤ │ 1 │ Bold │
│ Black │ 30 │ 40 │ 90 │ 100 │ │ 2 │ Darker color │
│ Red │ 31 │ 41 │ 91 │ 101 │ │ 3 │ Italic │
│ Green │ 32 │ 42 │ 92 │ 102 │ │ 4 │ Underline │
│ Yellow │ 33 │ 43 │ 93 │ 103 │ │ 5 │ Blinking (slow) │
│ Blue │ 34 │ 44 │ 94 │ 104 │ │ 6 │ Blinking (fast) │
│ Magenta │ 35 │ 45 │ 95 │ 105 │ │ 7 │ Reverse │
│ Cyan │ 36 │ 46 │ 96 │ 106 │ │ 8 │ Hide │
│ White │ 37 │ 47 │ 97 │ 107 │ │ 9 │ Cross-out │
└─────────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┘ └───┴─────────────────┘
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ EXAMPLES │
├──────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Code │ Description │
├──────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ \033[30;47m │ Black letters on White background │
│ \033[31m │ Red letter │
│ \033[1;2;94m │ Bold, Italic font with Bright Blue color │
│ \033[0m │ Reset everything │
└──────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────┘
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