Can't get Terminal to Display Colour (Mavericks)

First time i've posted on this community.

I've recently been working on a script to backup files, etc. for my own use but recently I thought it may look nicer if I was able to cleanup and have everything nice and tidy (with colours and what not). I was unable to complete this though. In a shell script I have written the following and despite what multiple combos i've tried I am unable to get this working.

Testing this on Mavericks as I can't update to Yosemite yet.

echo '\033Some text'

Can somebody shine a light on this? Thanks.