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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?

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See this: https://github.com/PoshCode/Pansies
It is a PowerShell module that does this. There is an issue here related to your question: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/14588
Please click the above link for more information.

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$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
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you may want to add a note that this requires a console that can use ANSI escape sequences. as an example, the default windows 7 console does not support such. [grin]
I don't even know if I want it
Thanks, this worked! Is there a way to do this for background too? I tried to do something like write-host "`e[7;6;$(60)m[60]" but that resulted in a really weird alternating background.
Can you please explain how this works? In particular the code in the quotes?

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