# Tip: Viewing ANSI color codes in Windows console programs

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/tip-viewing-ansi-color-codes-in-windows-console-programs/1453
**Category:** bedrock
**Created:** 2014-03-24T21:01:12Z
**Posts:** 3

## Post 1 by @jmohr — 2014-03-24T21:01:12Z

Not sure if this belongs here, but this was something that bugged me since the first time I used Capistrano on Windows.

By default, Windows console programs (CMD, Console2) don’t process ANSI color codes so the console window gets flooded with them while running Capistrano.

[Ansicon](https://github.com/adoxa/ansicon) fixes this problem.

And, here is a tutorial for having it start by default when using Console2:  
[http://linge-ma.ws/better-cmd-exe-terminal-and-ansi-color-codes-support/](http://linge-ma.ws/better-cmd-exe-terminal-and-ansi-color-codes-support/)

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## Post 2 by @ben — 2014-03-25T04:18:47Z

Awesome, thanks for sharing this

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## Post 3 by @netweb — 2014-03-28T04:09:35Z

This indeed is cool for Windows developers, adding to this you should also make sure the font you are using supports ‘Box Drawing characters’ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing\_character#Unicode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character#Unicode)

I use Adobe’s ‘Source Code Pro’, not sure what support are in the default fonts or default fonts in Windows.

grunt-contrib-cssmin@0.8.0 node\_modules\grunt-contrib-cssmin  
├── chalk@0.4.0 (has-color@0.1.4, ansi-styles@1.0.0, strip-ansi@0.1.1)  
├── grunt-lib-contrib@0.6.1 (zlib-browserify@0.0.1)  
└── clean-css@2.1.7 (commander@2.1.0)