How can I change the Terminal console color in OSX without opening a new console?

I know how to do this via Terminal > Preferences, but this seems to require opening a new console. I'd like to change the background color on the current console. Is this possible?

3 Answers

Menu: Shell > Show Inspector (⌘I)

Double-click on the desired setting. Naturally you'll have to add your desired colour scheme using Preferences first.

You can create a command you can enter in Terminal like I suggested in a similar topic.

You can do this from the command line too, with a command such as;

tput setab 6
clear

This changes the background to a teal colour.