POKE 53280. The data comes from The C64 Wiki.
The Commodore 64 keyboard had a key with the Commodore logo on it. This was a modifier, similar to CTRL or ALT on most keyboards, and the Command ("⌘") key on an Apple keyboard. Some colors were accessed by a cord with the Commodore key. As there is no glyph for the Commodore logo, I'm using the ⌘ character to represent it in the table below to represent it (I've seen other places represent it as C=).
The colors had a numerical value associated with them, used for various programing functions. For instance, you could type the aforementioned POKE 53280,color code to set the border to the color represented by color code. So, POKE 53280,14 would turn the border light blue. I've listed the color codes after the name/keystroke.
| Color on Black | Color on White | Black on Color | White on Color |
|---|---|---|---|
| READY | READY | READY | READY |
| Color | Description | Color | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 000000 000000 |
Black (CTRL+1)–0 | FFFFFF FFFFFF |
White (CTRL+2)–1 |
| 880000 880000 |
Red (CTRL+3)–2 | AAFFEE AAFFEE |
Cyan (CTRL+4)–3 |
| CC44CC CC44CC |
Violet/Purple (CTRL+5)–4 | 00CC55 00CC55 |
Green (CTRL+6)–5 |
| 0000AA 0000AA |
Blue (CTRL+7)–6 | EEEE77 EEEE77 |
Yellow (CTRL+8)–7 |
| DD8855 DD8855 |
Orange (⌘+1)–8 | 664400 664400 |
Brown (⌘+2)–9 |
| FF7777 FF7777 |
Light Red (⌘+3)–10 | 333333 333333 |
Dark Grey/Grey 1 (⌘+4)–11 |
| 777777 777777 |
Grey 2 (⌘+5)–12 | AAFF66 AAFF66 |
Light Green (⌘+6)–13 |
| 0088FF 0088FF |
Light Blue (⌘+7)–14 | BBBBBB BBBBBB |
Light Grey/Grey 3 (⌘+8)–15 |
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