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[–] SteveTech@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can do colours as well!

My Linux TTY with a coloured /etc/issue message

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Oh nice, I'm only just getting started and still don't know what possible, funny how we use the same font XD

[–] SteveTech@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oh cool, I believe only 4bit colours are possible, you can use this table from Wikipedia and the escape sequence \e[<FG>m replacing<FG> with your chosen foreground colour. Also \e[0m to reset everything.

funny how we use the same font XD

Haha yeah! I noticed that too!

I think I just used regex look aheads and look behinds to insert the colours easily.

Edit: Oh you can change that actual TTY font to a bigger one, if the text is too small too.