Irssi's colors that you can use in text formats, hilights, etc. : text text background --------------------------------------------------------------------- %k %K %0 black bold black black %r %R %1 red bold red red %g %G %2 green bold green green %y %Y %3 yellow bold yellow yellow %b %B %4 blue bold blue blue %m %M %5 magenta bold magenta magenta %p %P magenta (think: purple) %c %C %6 cyan bold cyan cyan %w %W %7 white bold white white %n %N Turn off all colors and other formatting %F Blinking on/off (think: flash) %U Underline on/off %8 Reverse on/off %9 %_ Bold on/off %: Insert newline %| Marks the indentation position %% A single % In .theme files %n works a bit differently. See default.theme for more information. MIRC colors that you can use when writing text to channel: foreground (fg) background (bg) ------------------------------------------------------- 0 white black with 0 as fg light gray with fg > 0 1 ligh gray black 2 blue blue 3 green green 4 light red red + blinking fg 5 orange orange 6 magenta (purple) magenta 7 red red 8 yellow orange + blinking fg 9 light green light green + blinking fg 10 cyan cyan 11 light cyan cyan + blinking fg 12 light blue blue + blinking fg 13 light magenta magenta + blinking fg 14 gray black + blinking fg 15 light gray black on black gray on light gray (with bold) These colors may differ depending on your terminal. How to use these colors ('#' means a number as MIRC color code): <Ctrl>-b set bold <Ctrl>-c#[,#] set foreground and optionally background color <Ctrl>-o reset all formats to plain text <Ctrl>-v set inverted color mode <Ctrl>-_ set underline <Ctrl>-7 same as <Ctrl>-_ To reset a mode set it again, f.e. <Ctrl-C>3<Ctrl-V>FOO<Ctrl-V>BAR creates black on green FOO followed by a green on black BAR