[bitwize]

Meh. Because I'm a Real Man with Real Big Balls I still think terminal text should come in one of three colors: green, amber, and page white. And you choose the color when you buy the terminal.

Kidding aside, I do do all my coding in an xterm that's had the font set to Glass Tty VT220 and the color set to one of those. Text decoration for highlighting purposes is done with our old friends bold, underline, and reverse video. But I'm retro like that.

[aMoniker]

You are so cool. How can I be cool like you are cool?

[unimpressive]

echo -e '\033[0;32m'

EDIT: Of course, real hackers use a rainbow shell prompt. (http://www.termsys.demon.co.uk/vtansi.htm) Building one of these is left as an exercise for the reader.