Colored e-mail without using \e[3;91m HTML \e[0m

[Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org>]

I have been told by the elderly president of a club I belong to that when I 
write on the club's mailing list, it must be in blue. I would like to do this 
without using HTML. I use alpine to send and receive email : I tried adding the 
ASCII codes that produce colored text in a X terminal, for example the command 
echo -e "This is a test of \e[3;91m italic red \e[0m ", but they are ignored in 
an e-mail message body.

Is there some way of producing colored text without using HTML ?

Roger

https://useplaintext.email/