Sets the default console foreground and background colours.
Syntax
COLOR [background][foreground]
Colour attributes are specified by 2 of the following hex digits. Each digit can be
any of the following values:
0 = Black
8 = Gray
1 = Blue
9 = Light Blue
2 = Green
A = Light Green
3 = Aqua
B = Light Aqua
4 = Red
C = Light Red
5 = Purple
D = Light Purple
6 = Yellow
E = Light Yellow
7 = White
F = Bright White
If no argument is given, COLOR restores the colour to what it was when CMD.EXE
started.
Colour values are assigned in the following order:
The DefaultColor registry value.
The CMD /T command line switch
The current colour settings when cmd was launched
The COLOR command sets ERRORLEVEL to 1 if an attempt is made to execute the
COLOR command with a foreground and background colour that are the same.
Examples:
COLOR 07, white on black is the default.
"COLOR 00" is an invalid option and will set %ERRORLEVEL% to 1
The COLOR command will change the color of all the text in the window.
“How much more black could this be?" and the answer is "None...none more black” ~ Spinal Tap
Related:
CMD - Start a new CMD shell
EXIT - Set a specific errorlevel
PowerShell: Write-Host - Write output to the screen (colour can be set for individual strings).
Average colour codes - HTML/CSS
Aaron Margosis - Change prompt colors for all Admin level prompts
Color Scheme Designer - Design colour themes
Equivalent bash command (Linux): dircolors - Colour setup for `ls'
