Setting Powershell colors with hex values in profile script

Question

I know I can change PowerShell console colors by setting in my profile something like:

$Host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor = \"White\"
Clear-Host

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Answer 1

You can, but not via the $Host object. The color table is stored in the registry.

You would use the same names, but the colors would be different. That's why the default PowerShell console is blue/gray.

Answer 2

I doubt that's possible. The $Host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColour is a System.ConsoleColor enumerator, thus there's only a finite set of colours that you could select. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-GB/library/system.consolecolor.aspx

Answer 3

For anyone that may be looking to custom color the Powershell ISE here is the format.

#Get the list of colors and hex equivalents
 [windows.media.colors] | Get-Member -Static -MemberType property | 
ForEach-Object { 
$psISE.Options.ConsolePaneTextBackgroundColor = `
([windows.media.colors]::$($_.name)).tostring() 
“$($_.name) `t $([windows.media.colors]::$($_.name))” 
}

#Example of how to change the console color in the powershell ISE
$psISE.Options.ConsolePaneBackgroundColor = '#FF4169E1'  #RoyalBlue
$psISE.Options.ConsolePaneTextBackgroundColor = '#00FFFFFF'  #Transparent  

Proper credit belongs to "The scripting Guy", sorry I don't have the link but the code is directly from his website.

Answer 4

The correct way to do this is with the Registry

cd hkcu:/console
$0 = '%systemroot%_system32_windowspowershell_v1.0_powershell.exe'
ni $0 -f
sp $0 ColorTable00 0x00562401
sp $0 ColorTable07 0x00f0edee

With the color being

0x00BBGGRR

Answer 5

As far as I know, you can't. The console API doesn't support custom color. If you do this:

$x = (Get-Host).UI.RawUI
$x | gm

you'll see that BackgroundColor is of type System.ConsoleColor.