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How can I change the TTY colors?

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How can I change the standard 8 colors (16 if you count the bright versions) that are used in the various TTYs in Ubuntu 12.04? I'm not talking about the Terminal or XTerm applications, I'm talking about the TTYs that you access via Ctrl+Alt+F1 through Ctrl+Alt+F6.

I don't want to change what colors are being used in which places, I want to tweak what the colors look like. For example, I don't want to change what red is used for, I just want to change what the red looks like--such as using #FF6C60 as red instead of #FF0000.

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answered 2 Years ago olouredping · Accepted Answer

Finally found it! As it turns out, I was searching for the wrong term. Apparently the TTYs run on a framebuffer, which is what the colors get changed in.

From this blog post but customized to use the railscasts theme colors, add the following to ~/.bashrc:

if [ "$TERM" = "linux" ]; then

    echo -en "e]P0232323" #black

    echo -en "e]P82B2B2B" #darkgrey

    echo -en "e]P1D75F5F" #darkred

    echo -en "e]P9E33636" #red

    echo -en "e]P287AF5F" #darkgreen

    echo -en "e]PA98E34D" #green

    echo -en "e]P3D7AF87" #brown

    echo -en "e]PBFFD75F" #yellow

    echo -en "e]P48787AF" #darkblue

    echo -en "e]PC7373C9" #blue

    echo -en "e]P5BD53A5" #darkmagenta

    echo -en "e]PDD633B2" #magenta

    echo -en "e]P65FAFAF" #darkcyan

    echo -en "e]PE44C9C9" #cyan

    echo -en "e]P7E5E5E5" #lightgrey

    echo -en "e]PFFFFFFF" #white

    clear #for background artifacting

fi