Most people are used to the traditional white text on black background look of the command prompt screen, but did you know that you can easily change both the text and background color using a simple command?
Open Command Prompt as Administrator
1) Press the Windows Key
2) Type cmd and press return
3) Right Click the Command Prompt icon and select ‘ Run as Administrator’
Color command options
The color command has numerous options
Sets the default console foreground and background colors.
COLOR [attr]
attr Specifies color attribute of console output
Color attributes are specified by TWO hex digits — the first
corresponds to the background; the second the foreground. Each digit
can be any of the following values:
0 = Black 8 = Gray
1 = Blue 9 = Light Blue
2 = Green A = Light Green
3 = Aqua B = Light Aqua
4 = Red C = Light Red
5 = Purple D = Light Purple
6 = Yellow E = Light Yellow
7 = White F = Bright WhiteIf no argument is given, this command restores the color to what it was
when CMD.EXE started. This value either comes from the current console
window, the /T command line switch or from the DefaultColor registry
value.
The COLOR command sets ERRORLEVEL to 1 if an attempt is made to execute
the COLOR command with a foreground and background color that are the
same.
Example: “COLOR fc” produces light red on bright white
Copy and Paste the Command
In the command prompt window enter the below command and press return
color
Followed by a combination of (0-9/A-F) (0-9/A-F) depending on which color you’d like
For example if you wanted light red text on a black background you would type
color fc
Which would give you this
