Changing color of displayed text in bash shell

So...... I'm feeling a bit colorful & I'd like my shell prompt to reflect on my mood.
I decided to customize the MOTD displayed when I logged in & make it a bit more colorful.

We need to know the color codes for the different colors provided by ANSI escape codes given below:

Black        0;30     Dark Gray     1;30
Red          0;31     Light Red     1;31
Green        0;32     Light Green   1;32
Brown/Orange 0;33     Yellow        1;33
Blue         0;34     Light Blue    1;34
Purple       0;35     Light Purple  1;35
Cyan         0;36     Light Cyan    1;36
Light Gray   0;37     White         1;37

Then using these codes I added the following lines to my .bash_profile file:

##Custom MOTD for me##

BLUE='\033[0;34m'
LB='\033[1;34m'
NC='\033[0m' # No Color
printf "${LB}=================${NC} \n"
printf "${BLUE}Welcome Sahil${NC} \n"

printf "${LB}=================${NC} \n"

So whenever I login I get this prompt:

On similar lines if we want to modify the shell prompt/PS1 to be of the color green this can be accomplished by adding the following lines in .bash_profile file.:

GREEN='\033[0;32m'

NC='\033[0m' # No Color

PS1="${GREEN}[`id -un`@`hostname | cut -d "." -f 1` ~]#${NC}"