Ok, wow. The solution is to disable custom font color in console2. If enabled, it overrides the expected colors. I use a custom color to give me opaque text when using c2’s alpha transparency. I completely forgot about it.
I’ve got this working with ConEmu instead. http://sourceforge.net/projects/conemu/ Install Git Bash Install ConEmu Open ConEmu, in settings (top right corner), click “settings” In the settings tree, open “startup”, then “tasks” Add a new task, or edit one of the existing ones click on the “tab” button in second row from bottom in the first box, … Read more