diff --git a/share/shpkg/shpkg.subr b/share/shpkg/shpkg.subr
index 9942879..2482a0c 100644
--- a/share/shpkg/shpkg.subr
+++ b/share/shpkg/shpkg.subr
@@ -56,9 +56,9 @@ export LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -L${SHPKG_LIB_DIR}"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${SHPKG_LIB_DIR}/pkgconfig"
verbose () {
- echo -e -n '\e[0;97;44m'
- echo "$@"
- echo -e -n '\e[0m'
+ printf '\e[0;34m'
+ echo -n "$@"
+ printf '\e[0m\n'
"$@"
}