Terminal Guide

Bright 8 Color Background

Set: 100-107
Reset: 49
urxvt
xterm
vte
konsole
linuxvc

Set the background color attribute.

These attributes set the bright named colors. The black color is a grey darker than the non bright "white".

100bright "black"
101bright red
102bright green
103bright yellow
104bright blue
105bright magenta
106bright cyan
107bright white

In practice these colors can be customized or selected from a theme in most terminals. The exact values can vary wildly.

linuxvc ( ☹ )

🛆 This is just an alias to the non bright background colors.