change font color on linux terminal

Question

i want to change the font color of everything i write in the linux terminals (eg the one accessible at ctrl+alt+f1) to green. my default tty font color is white, but i would like it to be green. i have tried

setterm -term linux -foreground green -clear

but this just changes the color of the cursor. i want to change the color of the font - so that it looks the same as the following xterm configuration:

xterm -foreground green

Answer 1

just needed to include the -store setting. the following does the trick perfectly:

setterm -foreground green -store

Answer 2

add to

~/.bashrc

if [ "$TERM" = "linux" ]; then
    echo -en "\e]P0232323" #black
    echo -en "\e]P82B2B2B" #darkgrey
    echo -en "\e]P1D75F5F" #darkred
    echo -en "\e]P9E33636" #red
    echo -en "\e]P287AF5F" #darkgreen
    echo -en "\e]PA98E34D" #green
    echo -en "\e]P3D7AF87" #brown
    echo -en "\e]PBFFD75F" #yellow
    echo -en "\e]P48787AF" #darkblue
    echo -en "\e]PC7373C9" #blue
    echo -en "\e]P5BD53A5" #darkmagenta
    echo -en "\e]PDD633B2" #magenta
    echo -en "\e]P65FAFAF" #darkcyan
    echo -en "\e]PE44C9C9" #cyan
    echo -en "\e]P7E5E5E5" #lightgrey
    echo -en "\e]PFFFFFFF" #white
    clear #for background artifacting
fi

http://phraktured.net/linux-console-colors.html

Answer 3

this command channges font colour>> tput setaf 4

this command changes background colour>> tput setab 2

change the no's to change colours 0=black 7=white

also set this cmd in alias to change colours in 2 letters

alias c1='tput setaf 4'

write these alias in .bashrc file to make them permanent.