Custom font color for Powershell output

Question

Let's take the powershell command Write-Host "red text" -Fore red this displays "red text" in a foreground of red.
But, you want the text to be displayed in a slightly lighter font color, light red.

Is there a way to do this and get any foreground color (and background) in the RGB spectrum using powershell?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65649778/custom-font-color-for-powershell-output

Answer 1

$PSVersionTable.PSVersion

Major  Minor  Patch  PreReleaseLabel BuildLabel
-----  -----  -----  --------------- ----------
7      1      0

(0..256).ForEach{write-host "`e[38;5;$($_)m[$_]"} # background color
(0..256).ForEach{write-host "`e[48;5;$($_)m[$_]"} # Foreground color