Change Background Color and Font Size in Eclipse

It seems to be possible to print color to console output using logback : https://logback.qos.ch/manual/layouts.html#coloring.

I am trying to change the Eclipse console font color. (Windows XP) Until now I succeeded to change the coding to UTF-8, according to guides I googled.

To set the types of output (and their colors) in the Console view: Open the Opens the Console preference page Run/Debug > Console preference page. Checking ...

Output written to the Console via the logging framework uses red text, whilst output from System.out.println uses black text.

How to enable color-coded output for the Console view in Eclipse IDE, by installing the ANSI Console plugin. And how to configure Spring ...

The Run/Debug>Console menu is correct. But you have to use the Standard Out/Standard Error text color buttons.

In this article, we'll see how to add color to our logs for consoles such as the Visual Studio Code terminal, Linux, and Windows command prompt.

The above is pseudo-code is to print text in black color. So here we can use ANSI_BLACK in place of ANSI_COLORNAME to print the text in Black color.

There are four option available for changing the console view: Standard out color; Standard error color; Console Background; Standard In color.

Within Eclipse, the simplest approach would be to use System.err.println for lines you want to be in red - I believe that's the default.