Go Print Output text in color in console

Go use ANSI escaped code for colors.

In MAC/Linux system terminal supports ANSI escape codes
Windows Command Prompt doesn’t support it. On windows you can install Cygwin. ANSI escape codes work on that.

Also to mention in the below code we have used colorReset after printing. If we don’t use that then the color effect remains and it is not cleared. Remove the colorReset from below code and it will show text “next” in cyan color
Below is code in golang to do the same

Example or Go Print Output text in color in console

package main

import (
    "fmt"
)

func main() {
    colorReset := "\033[0m"

    colorRed := "\033[31m"
    colorGreen := "\033[32m"
    colorYellow := "\033[33m"
    colorBlue := "\033[34m"
    colorPurple := "\033[35m"
    colorCyan := "\033[36m"
    colorWhite := "\033[37m"
    
    fmt.Println(string(colorRed), "test")
    fmt.Println(string(colorGreen), "test")
    fmt.Println(string(colorYellow), "test")
    fmt.Println(string(colorBlue), "test")
    fmt.Println(string(colorPurple), "test")
    fmt.Println(string(colorWhite), "test")
    fmt.Println(string(colorCyan), "test", string(colorReset))
    fmt.Println("next")
}

Output

test
test
test
test
test
test
test
next

Conclusion

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