Change text color in a view

Change text color in a view

I would like to be able to have different color text show in my view,  or be able to change the background color of the box where the text is.

For example, under view, I have a list.  One of the columns is STATUS
I would like for it to list like this:
NONE - Black
Arrived - Blue
Delayed - Red
Finished - Green.

I figured out that if I just put HTML code into the drop down menu like <FONT COLOR="RED>Delayed</FONT>, this will work.  But I have a lot of other IF statements and other things which will make it difficult for me to write my code if I have to type in all of the extra HTML stuff every time.
If (input.Status == "<FONT COLOR="RED>Delayed</FONT>") ...

  So is there a simple way to do this