List of all colors available for PowerShell?

Question

I am searching for a list of all colors I can use in PowerShell. Since we need to provide names and no hexnumbers, it's hard to figure out if a color exists or not, at least if you don't know how :))

For example, as -foregroundcolor

write-host "hello world" -foregroundcolor "red"

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20541456/list-of-all-colors-available-for-powershell

Answer 1

Pretty grid

$colors = [enum]::GetValues([System.ConsoleColor])
Foreach ($bgcolor in $colors){
    Foreach ($fgcolor in $colors) { Write-Host "$fgcolor|"  -ForegroundColor $fgcolor -BackgroundColor $bgcolor -NoNewLine }
    Write-Host " on $bgcolor"
}

Updated colours in newer powershell:

https://gist.github.com/timabell/cc9ca76964b59b2a54e91bda3665499e