Bash color Available colors BLACK RED GREEN BROWN BLUE PURPLE CYAN LIGHT_GRAY DEFAULT DARK_GRAY LIGHT_RED LIGHT_GREEN YELLOW LIGHT_BLUE LIGHT_PURPLE LIGHT_CYAN WHITE Available effect BOLD DIM (not working on Konsole) UNDERLINE BLINK (not working on Konsole and Gnome Terminal) INVERSE HIDDEN (not working on Konsole) Example from bashcolor import RED, UNDERLINE, colorize print(colorize('Red color', RED)) print(colorize('Red background', background=RED)) print(colorize('Underline', effects=[UNDERLINE])) API def colorize( text, color=None, background=None, effects=[], color_256=None, background_256=None, with_end=True):