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║   ANSI Escape Codes, the Short Version   ║
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║ The handful of escape sequences you      ║
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Title ..: ANSI Escape Codes, the Short Version
Author .: staff
Date ...: 2026-06-10
Section : Code
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Everything colourful in a terminal is just `ESC [` followed by a few numbers
and a letter. Here's the minimum viable cheat sheet.
```c
#define RESET   "\x1b[0m"
#define BOLD    "\x1b[1m"
#define FG(n)   "\x1b[38;5;" #n "m"   /* 256-colour foreground */

printf(FG(213) BOLD "rapid1337" RESET "\n");
```
`38;5;n` selects a colour from the 256-colour cube; swap `38` for `48` and
you set the background instead. That's 90% of what any TUI needs.


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