mIRC Colors
The color codes in mIRC are inserted by using the Control+K key combination.
The actual control character inserted in the text is ascii character 3, seen
as ^C or inverse C on most UNIX clients.
The syntax of the color attribute in text has the format ^CN[,M]
N and M can be any number out of a range 0 to 15 thus allowing a range
of sixteen colors.
N will be the text (foreground) color, M a background color. A background
color is not always included. If no background color is set the receiving
client uses a default background color (white). Additionally you can use
color 99 to indicate a transparent color.
A plain ^C can be used to turn off all previous color attributes.
The Control+O key combination in mIRC inserts ascii character 15, which
turns off all previous attributes, including color, bold, underline,
and italics.
Technically mIRC accepts the full number range 0 to 99. Thus N and M
can maximally be two digits long. The way these colors are interpreted
varies from client to client. Some map the numbers back to 0 to 15, others
interpret numbers larger than 15 as the default text color.
You can expect to see combinations like:
^C5,12colored text and background^C
^C5colored text^C
^C3colored text ^C5,2more colored text and background^C
^C3,5colored text and background ^C8other colored text but same background^C
^C3,5colored text and background ^C8,7other colored text and different background^C
As you see the background color remains valid until it is changed or until
the entire color is switched off with a ^C. Of course lines can start with
colored text from the beginning and a closing ^C is not always given. To
specify a background color, a foreground color has to be given. So a ^C,8
attribute is not valid and thus ignored.
Note: if you want to color text that begins with numbers, this syntax requires
that you specify the color value as two digits.
The color indexes 0 to 15 represent the following colors:
| Index | Color | RGB |
| 0 | White | (255,255,255) |
| 1 | Black | (0,0,0) |
| 2 | Blue | (0,0,127) |
| 3 | Green | (0,147,0) |
| 4 | Light Red | (255,0,0) |
| 5 | Brown | (127,0,0) |
| 6 | Purple | (156,0,156) |
| 7 | Orange | (252,127,0) |
| 8 | Yellow | (255,255,0) |
| 9 | Light Green | (0,252,0) |
| 10 | Cyan | (0,147,147) |
| 11 | Light Cyan | (0,255,255) |
| 12 | Light Blue | (0,0,252) |
| 13 | Pink | (255,0,255) |
| 14 | Grey | (127,127,127) |
| 15 | Light Grey | (210,210,210) |
These colors are based on the VGA/XP/ANSI color table. Other IRC clients may use
slightly different colors for the above indexes.
You can also use colors 16 to 98 for a range of fixed colors that are the same for all IRC users.
You can use color 99 for the default text/background color for a line.
mIRC also recognizes ANSI color escape codes in incoming messages and maps them
to the above indexes.
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