{"id":3281,"date":"2013-09-15T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T19:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2013-11-21T16:35:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T23:35:07","slug":"super-user-tip-change-windows-command-prompt-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/super-user-tip-change-windows-command-prompt-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"Super User tip: Change Windows Command Prompt colors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Use the Command Prompt a lot? You don’t have to settle for Light-grey on black. In fact, you can color up your Command Prompt screen, like this!<\/p>\n

\"color9f\"<\/a>
Command Prompt, a la BIOS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Or how about this?<\/p>\n

\"color0d\"<\/a>
Light Purple on Black<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fortunately this is very easy to do. In fact, there are two<\/em> ways of doing so.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

First way: in console<\/h1>\n

Launch Command Prompt, then type:<\/p>\n

COLOR [background][foreground]<\/pre>\n
Background and foreground can be one of the following HEX digits:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
0<\/td>\nBlack<\/td>\n<\/td>\n8<\/td>\nGray<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nBlue<\/td>\n<\/td>\n9<\/td>\nLight Blue<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nGreen<\/td>\n<\/td>\nA<\/td>\nLight Green<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nAqua<\/td>\n<\/td>\nB<\/td>\nLight Aqua<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nRed<\/td>\n<\/td>\nC<\/td>\nLight Red<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nPurple<\/td>\n<\/td>\nD<\/td>\nLight Purple<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nYellow<\/td>\n<\/td>\nE<\/td>\nLight Yellow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nWhite<\/td>\n<\/td>\nF<\/td>\nBright White<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
For example: you want white on yellow. Type “COLOR 6f”. 6 = background, F = foreground (text color). Another shortcut you can use, if you want to keep the background as is: typing COLOR [color] will change ONLY the text color.<\/p>\n
If you want to reset to the default colors, type “COLOR”, by itself.<\/p>\n
You can see more info about the command by typing “COLOR help”.<\/p>\n
Second way: Console Window Properties<\/h1>\n
Right click on the title bar (where it says “Command Prompt”), and select Properties. Now you can change not only the color, but also the font of your cmd, size of the screen, and even customize the 16 available colors to make a color scheme that’s not so harsh on the eyes!<\/p>\n
\"CmdProperties\"<\/a><\/p>\n
If you want to set the color scheme as a default, Right-click the title and select Default. Everything else works the same way.<\/p>\n
P.S. For those of you Minecraft players, you’ll notice that Minecraft’s color codes<\/a> correspond very much to Command Prompt’s color codes. Go figure!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Use the Command Prompt a lot? You don’t have to settle for Light-grey on black. In fact, you can color up your Command Prompt screen, like this! Or how about this? Fortunately this is very easy to do. In fact, there are two ways of doing so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Super User tip: Change #Windows Command Prompt colors #protip","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,115],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/colordefault.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Zt3y-QV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3281"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3954,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions\/3954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}