Colors in JavaScript console

Question

Can Chrome\'s built-in JavaScript console display colors?

I want errors in red, warnings in orange and console.log\'s in green. Is that possible?

Answer 1

Check this out:

Animation in console, plus CSS

(function() {
  var frame = 0;
  var frames = [
    "This",
    "is",
    "SPARTA!",
    " ",
    "SPARTA!",
    " ",
    "SPARTA!",
    " ",
    "SPARTA!",
    " ",
    "SPARTA!",
    " ",
    "SPARTA!"
  ];
  var showNext = () => {
    console.clear();
    console.log(
      `%c `,
      "background: red; color: white; font-size: 15px; padding: 3px 41%;"
    );
    console.log(
      `%c ${frames[frame]}`,
      "background: red; color: white; font-size: 25px; padding: 3px 40%;"
    );
    console.log(
      `%c `,
      "background: red; color: white; font-size: 15px; padding: 3px 41%;"
    );
    setTimeout(
      showNext,
      frames[frame] === "SPARTA!" || frames[frame] === " " ? 100 : 1500
    );
    // next frame and loop
    frame++;
    if (frame >= frames.length) {
      frame = 0;
    }
  };
  showNext();
})();

https://jsfiddle.net/a8y3jhfL/

you can paste ASCII in each frame to watch an ASCII animation