How do I make one particular line of a batch file a different color then the others?

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I was having the same problem yesterday, I did some research and this worked for me.
EDIT: This is NOT the same code as the other one.

@Echo Off
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
for /F "tokens=1,2 delims=#" %%a in ('"prompt #$H#$E# & echo on & for %%b in (1) do     rem"') do (
  set "DEL=%%a"
)
call :colorEcho 0a "This is colored green with a black background!"
echo.
call :colorEcho a0 "This is colored black with a green background!"
echo.
pause
exit
:colorEcho
echo off
<nul set /p ".=%DEL%" > "%~2"
findstr /v /a:%1 /R "^$" "%~2" nul
del "%~2" > nul 2>&1i

it does this:
Output

All you need to do to fit this is put the part from SETLOCAL EnableDel… to ) to the beginning of your code (If your code starts with @echo off then put it under that) and also put the part from :colorEcho to del %~2 at the exact bottom of your script (NOTHING UNDERNEATH!)

Now between you notice

call :colorEcho 0a "This is colored green with a black background!"
echo.
call :colorEcho a0 "This is colored black with a green background!"
echo.
pause
exit

Explained line by line:
First line (call :colorEcho 0a "This is colored green with a black background!"): This is a colored echo, it suprisingly says This is colored green with a black background! in 0a (Black Bg, Green Text)
Second line (echo.) prints a newline, since our colored echo doesn’t print one.

SO

Let’s say you wanted to say “Hello World” in Hello being yellow and World being green.
Example!

@Echo Off
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
for /F "tokens=1,2 delims=#" %%a in ('"prompt #$H#$E# & echo on & for %%b in (1) do     rem"') do (
  set "DEL=%%a"
)
call :colorEcho 0e "Hello "
call :colorEcho 0a " World"
pause
exit
:colorEcho
echo off
<nul set /p ".=%DEL%" > "%~2"
findstr /v /a:%1 /R "^$" "%~2" nul
del "%~2" > nul 2>&1i

This is what it does:
Output
I hope this is understandable!

EDIT: Make sure the program exits before it could reach :colorEcho

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