While learning about the creation of man pages, I came across something that I had not considered before, man page in color?  This can be done with a little installation of most. Using a CentOS 6 minimal install, most can be installed via yum. Add most to the environment. Check out the man pages in color. Source(s) https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-linux-color-man-pages-configuration/