If you’re doing any command line programming, then you’re sick of the light gray on black background associated with your program. However, adding color can be a bit of a pain, especially since there isn’t an easy way to figure out what combinations exist.

Here is a table of all 256 combinations of foregrounds and backgrounds. Click on the image to enlarge and then use the number of your chosen combination in your program.



Here is the full sized chart.
Here is the source.