I hope i'm in the right category for this. Anyhow, i posted the exact same message on the forum as well: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=712986

Just for completeness pasted it here:

Hi,

first posting it here so people can discuss it.

What i would like to propose is bringing a little more color in the default archlinux console:
* [user@host ~] $ colors
* grep --color=auto colors

And to give an idea how that looks:
Grep colors: http://img7.imageshack.us/i/grepcolors.png/
Console colors: http://img682.imageshack.us/i/consolecolors.png/

And this is how i did that (in .bashrc):
# Check for an interactive session
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return

alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
PS1='\033[01m[\033[0m \u\033[01;37m @ \033[0m\h \033[36m\W \033[01;37m]\033[0;32m \$\033[0m '
Now i would propose that this gets included in archlinux itself so every new arch user can enjoy these fancy colors ^_^
This can probably done by editing the global bashrc or the user .bashrc but i leave that up to the people that know what's best.

Let me know what you think of this idea.

Btw. for the grep color. That adjustment is already in bashrc for ls.. but not for grep, so it makes sense to me to include grep..