Powershell Colors

View PSStyle Variables

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$PSStyle
this prints varialbes taht can be used to style powershell output.
Color variables Foreground.* and Background.* are read-only and are taken from terminal.

Get Variables to Style

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Get-PSReadlineOption | Select *color*,
which outputs a list like (a bit modified, for copy purpose):

• Command
• Comment
• ContinuationPrompt
• Default
• Emphasis
• Error
• InlinePrediction
• Keyword
• ListPrediction
• ListPredictionSelected
• ListPredictionTooltip
• Member
• Number
• Operator
• Parameter
• Selection
• String
• Type
• Variable

Set and Apply Colors

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Create an object with variables and values

To set hex colors: $PSStyle.{Background | Foreground}.FromRGB(0x<color-in-hex>)

To set background and foreground, set the sum.

To apply the colors, pass this object to -Colors parameter of Set-PSReadLineOption:

Example:

$MyTheme = @{
	ListPredictionSelected = $PSStyle.Foreground.White + $PSStyle.Background.FromRGB(0x000000)
}

Set-PSReadLineOption -Colors $MyTheme

Put it in the powershell initialization script:

• profile.ps1 in the same directory with pwsh.exe ($PSHOME)
• or $PROFILE, by default %USERPFORILE%/Documents/PowerShell/Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1

Sources

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• 4sysops.com/Format rendering
• 4sysops.com/Token colors
• powershell docs/$PSStyle