Irssi's colors that you can use in text formats 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 All colors turned off %U Underline on/off %8 Reverse on/off %9 %_ Bold on/off %: Insert newline %| Marks the indentation position %% A single % MIRC colors that you can use when writing text to channel and with hilighting text: foreground background ------------------------------------------------------- 0 white black 1 ligh gray --- 2 blue blue 3 green green 4 light red --- 5 orange orange 6 magenta (purple) magenta 7 red red 8 yellow --- 9 light green --- 10 cyan cyan 11 light cyan --- 12 light blue --- 13 light magenta --- 14 gray black on black 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 color code): -b set bold -c#[,#] set foreground and optionally background color -o reset all formats to plain text -v set inverted color mode -_ set underline -7 same as -_ To reset a mode set it again, f.e. -c3-vFOO-vBAR creates black on green FOO followed by a green on black BAR