Multiple Foreground Colors in PowerShell in One Command

There are multiple cmdlets in PowerShell to display output on the console. The Write-Host is a popular cmdlet that allows you to print the colored text in the output.

With a single Write-Host command, you can print the text in only one color. You have to use multiple Write-Host commands to display multiple colors.

This tutorial will introduce different methods to output text with multiple foreground colors in PowerShell.

Use the Write-Host Cmdlet to Output Multiple Foreground Colors in PowerShell

The Write-Host cmdlet has two parameters, -ForegroundColor and -BackgroundColor, for printing the colored text. The -ForegroundColor parameter changes the text color, whereas the -BackgroundColor changes the background color.

The accepted color values are:

Black
DarkBlue
DarkGreen
DarkCyan
DarkRed
DarkMagenta
DarkYellow
Gray
DarkGray
Blue
Green
Cyan
Red
Magenta
Yellow
White

The following command changes the text color to green.

Write-Host "Hello World" -ForegroundColor Green

The parameter accepts only one value, so you cannot specify multiple colors to display. You will need to use several Write-Host commands for multiple colors.

This command prints the string in two different colors: green and red.

Write-Host "Hello " -ForegroundColor Green -NoNewline; Write-Host "World" -ForegroundColor Red

Output:

The -NoNewline parameter allows you to print multiple text strings in a single line. The specified string will be printed on the new line if it is not used.

Use the Write-Color Cmdlet to Output Multiple Foreground Colors With One Command in PowerShell

The Write-Color cmdlet is available in the PowerShell module. You can install it using the command below.

Install-Module PSWriteColor

The Write-Color allows you to print the output with multiple colors in a very simple way. The following command changes the string Hello World to the specified color in the output.

Write-Color -Text "Hello World" -Color Green

To display text in multiple colors, you must separate the strings and colors with a comma ,. For example, this command shows two strings in two different colors on the same line:

Write-Color -Text "Hello ", "World" -Color Green, Yellow

Output:

Let’s see another example to display multiple foreground colors with Write-Color in PowerShell.

Write-Color -Text "Some text ",
"in different ",
"colors as",
"you can see. " -Color Green, Yellow, Red, Blue

Output:

The Write-Color is short and easy to use for printing different colored text. And now you should know how to have multiple text colors on the same line in PowerShell output.