How to echo with different colors in the Windows command line

Question

I know that the color bf command sets the colors of the whole command line window but I wanted to to print one single line in a different color.

Answer 1

Windows 10 - TH2 and above:

(a.k.a. Version 1511, build 10586, release 2015-11-10)

At Command Prompt:

echo ^[[32m HI ^[[0m

Using the actual keys:   echo Ctrl+[[32m HI Ctrl+[[0mEnter

You should see a green "HI" below it.

Code numbers can be found here:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Colors

Notepad:

To save this into notepad, you can type ESC into it using: Alt+027 with the numpad, then the [32m part. Another trick when I was on a laptop, redirect the line above into a file to get started, then cut and paste:

echo echo ^[[32m HI ^[[0m >> batch_file.cmd