How to colorize cowsay and fortunes output in linux terminal?

Question

linux

Actually the question is in the topic title.

ps
I can’t figure out how to draw fortunes in one color, and cowsay in another.
now in ~/.bashrc registered
fortune | cowsay -f /home/svm/.cowsay.cow | lolcat -F 7.009
the text is hard to read, I would like the fortunes output to be in a certain color.

ps
in short, as I wanted, I didn’t have the mind to do it, I
made it even cooler:
installed xcowsay
sudo apt-install xcowsay
created a config file ~/.config/xcowsay

at_x = 100 # координаты вывода изображения в пикселях от левого верхнего угла
at_y = 160 #
#cow_size = large # указывает ,что картинка /usr/share/xcowsay/cow_<b>large</b>.png
alt_image=.icons/douel_head.png # так можно задать путь к своей картинке
display_time = 4000 #время отображения в мс.

added his picture of the "default cow", the path is specified in the file ~/.config/xcowsay alt_image
in ~/.bashrc added/changed lines

if [ -x /usr/bin/mint-fortune ]; then
     fortune | xcowsay
fi

as a result, we have such a talking head ㋛

PS
did as I originally wanted
in ~/.bashrc

if [ -x /usr/bin/mint-fortune ]; then
fortune | cowsay > /tmp/cowsay ;
grep -e '--------$' /tmp/cowsay -B50 -A0 | lolcat -F 0.0033 ;
tail -n 20 /tmp/cowsay | lolcat -a -s 500 -F 3 ;echo " " ; sleep4s; clear;
fi

we have such a picture

Answer 1

perl console colorize ,
tyts