diff --git a/release.sh b/release.sh
index f5e05a2..f51afbc 100755
--- a/release.sh
+++ b/release.sh
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ FLUTTER="/opt/flutter/bin/flutter"
 JAVA_HOME="/root/.sdkman/candidates/java/21.0.11-amzn"
 
 # ── colors ──
-R='\033[0;31m'  G='\033[0;32m'  Y='\033[1;33m'
-C='\033[0;36m'  B='\033[1m'     N='\033[0m'
+R=$'\033[0;31m'  G=$'\033[0;32m'  Y=$'\033[1;33m'
+C=$'\033[0;36m'  B=$'\033[1m'     N=$'\033[0m'
 
 bar="━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
 blen=${#bar}