Adding colors to shell scripts

Define the colors :

ESC_SEQ=”\x1b[”
COL_RESET=$ESC_SEQ”39;49;00m”
COL_RED=$ESC_SEQ”31;01m”
COL_GREEN=$ESC_SEQ”32;01m”
COL_YELLOW=$ESC_SEQ”33;01m”
COL_BLUE=$ESC_SEQ”34;01m”
COL_MAGENTA=$ESC_SEQ”35;01m”
COL_CYAN=$ESC_SEQ”36;01m”

echo -e “$COL_RED Output Text Here $COL_RESET”