SGR 30–37 — Foreground color (8 basic)

Byte forms

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

Description

The 8 basic foreground colors: 30 black, 31 red, 32 green, 33 yellow, 34 blue, 35 magenta, 36 cyan, 37 white. SGR 39 resets the foreground to the terminal default without touching the background. The actual rendered RGB is theme-dependent — there is no canonical RGB for 'ANSI red'. To pick a specific RGB, use truecolor (SGR 38;2;…).

Spec citation: ECMA-48 §8.3.117 (SGR parameters 30–37, 39)

Parameters

Examples

for c in 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37; do printf "\033[${c}m■\033[0m"; done; echo

for c in range(30, 38): print(f'\x1b[{c}m{c}\x1b[0m', end=' ')

for c := 30; c <= 37; c++ { fmt.Printf("\x1b[%dm%d\x1b[0m ", c, c) }

for (let c = 30; c <= 37; c++) process.stdout.write(`\x1b[${c}m${c}\x1b[0m `)

for (int c = 30; c <= 37; c++) printf("\x1b[%dm%d\x1b[0m ", c, c);

Terminal support

xterm

yes

Linux console (fbcon)

yes

macOS Terminal.app

yes

iTerm2

yes

Windows Terminal

yes

cmd.exe / ConPTY

yes

kitty

yes

alacritty

yes

WezTerm

yes

Ghostty

yes

GNOME Terminal

yes

Konsole

yes

tmux

no

GNU screen

no

Related sequences

• SGR 40–47 — Background color (8 basic)
• SGR 90–97 — Bright foreground color
• SGR 38;5;n — 256-color foreground
• SGR 38;2;R;G;B — 24-bit truecolor foreground

In the family cookbook

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