Terminal Colors

Check all available colors using this script:

#!/bin/bash
color(){
    for c; do
        printf '\e[48;5;%dm%03d' $c $c
    done
    printf '\e[0m \n'
}

IFS=$' \t\n'
color {0..15}
for ((i=0;i<6;i++)); do
    color $(seq $((i*36+16)) $((i*36+51)))
done
color {232..255}

Usage

export RED="tput setaf 1"
export GREEN="tput setaf 2"
export PURPLE="tput setaf 5"

$RED; echo "this is red"

More color examples

COLOR_GREEN="\033[32m"
COLOR_GREEN_b="\e[92m"
COLOR_RED="\033[91m"
COLOR_RED_FULL="\033[41;1m"
COLOR_ORANGE="\033[38;5;202m"
COLOR_YELLOW="\033[93m"
COLOR_CYAN="\033[36m"
COLOR_GREY="\e[90m"
COLOR_GRAY=" \e[100m"
WHITE_ON_GREEN="\033[30;48;5;83m"
CoR="\033[0m"