console.color

Simple and easy-to-use minilibrary for manipulating colors of text and background of output sending to std::cout

Implementation uses WinAPI for Windows and ANSI escape codes for other OSes.

Available colors

• black
• red
• green
• yellow
• blue
• cyan
• magenta
• white

all with normal and bright/bold intensity

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Function brighten sets bold/bright color only for text.

OSes other than Windows

Functions set, color and bgcolor use aixterm codes for setting bright colors, if you want to use standard ANSI bold/bright codes please use brighten function after setting color with intensity parameter set to normal.

Tested on:

• Windows 10 cmd.exe
• Windows 7 cmd.exe
• Windows PowerShell
• msys
• cygwin
• ubuntu 16.04