Given the caveat that this is not portable, you specified 'Linux' and 'Terminal', and that you wanted non-modular, try this: 

  #! /usr/bin/perl -w
  use strict;

  print '         ',
        map ("  $_  ", 40..47),
        "\n";

  for my $fg (30..37, map {"1;$_"} 30..37)
  {
    printf "%9s%s\n",
           $fg,
           join ('', map {"\e[${fg}m\e[${_}m Text \e[0m"} 40..47);
  }

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I don't have the kind of patience that tachyon has, so I won't simulate the output, but imagine a labelled grid of foreground/background combinations that looks pretty.

In reply to Re^5: using colors with print() by pbeckingham
in thread using colors with print() by drwxrwxrwx

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