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Support custom ConsolePalette/ANSI colors

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#2,976 opened on Dec 8, 2020

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Description

Regarding #2966.

In build systems that have a build log with white background, the current palette is not... the prettiest of palettes. Would be great to have a way of customizing the colors. Could be by choosing between different "official" palettes, or by explicitly setting the different colors of the palette.

I suspect that you could achieve this using Cake.Frosting and a custom IConsole where you handle ANSI coloring yourself, but it would be nice utilize the built in ANSI coloring and do this without Cake.Frosting.

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Research direction
Explore the current ConsolePalette implementation and design a configuration mechanism to allow users to customize ANSI colors.
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csharp
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C#
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