I used it in some of my Node.js or Python projects and it was a bit bizzarre to work with inside CMD on Windows, hence I made a tiny knowledge stash, which I will likely expand further. I actually forgot what exactly I was going to do with it. I believe that I created some kind of mini colors library that I could use for printing out colorful debug messages. Makes sense in that aspect I guess...
I might want to give it another try when I have some time the other day.
graph TD;
a[VT100]-->|Millions of years of human evolution| b[Escape sequences denoted with \ e, \ x1B, \ 033];
b-->b1[Color static libraries - e.g. C-lang]
b-->b2[Works perfecty well in Bash, Node.js, possibly Python];
b-->b3[Super borked in CMD];
Official terminals website (those actually used to be old terminals made by DEC, which kind of started this type of coloring sequences etc.)
Color combinations
\e[{FORMAT_ATTRIBUTE};{FORGROUND_COLOR};{BACKGROUND_COLOR}m
{TEXT}
\e[{RESET_FORMATE_ATTRIBUTE}m
FORMAT ATTRIBUTE
{ "Default", "0" }, { "Bold", "1" }, { "Dim", "2" }, { "Italics", "3"}, { "Underlined", "4" }, { "Blink", "5" }, { "Reverse", "7" }, { "Hidden", "8" }
FORGROUND COLOR
{ "Default", "39" }, { "Black", "30" }, { "Red", "31" }, { "Green", "32" }, { "Yellow", "33" }, { "Blue", "34" }, { "Magenta", "35" }, { "Cyan", "36" }, { "Light Gray", "37" }, { "Dark Gray", "90" }, { "Light Red", "91" }, { "Light Green", "92" }, { "Light Yellow", "93" }, { "Light Blue", "94" }, { "Light Magenta", "95" }, { "Light Cyan", "96" }, { "White", "97" }
BACKGROUND COLOR
{ "Default", "49" }, { "Black", "40" }, { "Red", "41" }, { "Green", "42" }, { "Yellow", "43" }, { "Blue", "44" }, { "Megenta", "45" }, { "Cyan", "46" }, { "Light Gray", "47" }, { "Dark Gray", "100" }, { "Light Red", "101" }, { "Light Green", "102" }, { "Light Yellow", "103" }, { "Light Blue", "104" }, { "Light Magenta", "105" }, { "Light Cyan", "106" }, { "White", "107" }
RESET FORMAT ATTRIBUTE
{ "All", "0" }, { "Bold", "21" }, { "Dim", "22" }, { "Underlined", "24" }, { "Blink", "25" }, { "Reverse", "27" }, { "Hidden", "28" }
Example of color representations
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