In a C# console application, can anyone tell me how to "highlight" certain characters, that is, print them brighter than other characters?

Color options in console applications are quite limited. If you are going to prettify your program, maybe you should consider biting the bullet and learning how to write a Windows application rather than a console program.

Let me put it this way: The prettiest console program that I ever wrote was really, really ugly. As I pause for breath, I can hear people asking, "How ugly was it, Dave?" Well, it's so ugly that my mom wouldn't even put it on the refrigerator.

However (and stop me if you have heard this before), you can poke around msdn and find stuff like: Console Color Enumeration

Regards,

Dave