OSC 110 / 111 / 112 — Reset default fg / bg / cursor colour

Restore the terminal's user-default foreground, background, or cursor colour after OSC 10 / 11 / 12 overrode it.

Byte forms

Every common string-literal form so you can paste-and-search either direction.

\\x1b[\x1b]110\x07 (reset fg) \x1b]111\x07 (reset bg) \x1b]112\x07 (reset cursor)

\\033[\033]110\007 / \033]111\007 / \033]112\007

\\e[\e]110\a / \e]111\a / \e]112\a

ESC [ESC ] N BEL

hex1b 5d 31 31 30 / 31 31 31 / 31 31 32 07

Description

The reset partners of OSC 10 / 11 / 12 (set fg / bg / cursor colour). Sending one of these with no payload restores the value to whatever the user configured in their terminal preferences — much friendlier than guessing what to pass to OSC 10/11/12 to undo a temporary override. Apps that briefly remap default colours (theme-switchers, demos, terminal-recorders that need to capture a clean baseline) should always emit the corresponding `11X` on exit. OSC 112 is xterm-specific for the cursor; iTerm2 also supports it. Sending `\x1b]110\x07` is exactly equivalent to `\x1b]10;?\x07` followed by re-emitting whatever was queried — but with one round-trip-free byte.

Spec citation: xterm-ctlseqs (OSC 110 / 111 / 112)

Examples

bash

printf '\033]11;#000000\007'   # override bg to pure black\n# … later …\nprintf '\033]111\007'           # restore user default bg

python

import sys; sys.stdout.write('\x1b]111\x07')

fmt.Print("\x1b]111\x07")

javascript

process.stdout.write('\x1b]111\x07')

printf("\x1b]111\x07");

Terminal support

xterm: yes
Linux console (fbcon): no
macOS Terminal.app: partial
iTerm2: yes
Windows Terminal: yes
cmd.exe / ConPTY: no
kitty: yes
alacritty: yes
WezTerm: yes
Ghostty: yes
GNOME Terminal: yes
Konsole: yes
tmux: no
GNU screen: no

xterm	Linux console (fbcon)	macOS Terminal.app	iTerm2	Windows Terminal	cmd.exe / ConPTY	kitty	alacritty	WezTerm	Ghostty	GNOME Terminal	Konsole	tmux	GNU screen
yes	no	partial	yes	yes	no	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	no

Related sequences

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