There is an error with using cecho with mini consoles, which seems to leave blank spaces for the color tags ("<white>" is actually written as " " instead of being "") until the console has a font size set explicitly. Here is a simple test case:
createMiniConsole("myConsole",0,0,0,0)
resizeWindow("myConsole",200,200)
cecho("myConsole","<red>red, <blue>blue, <white>white"
Note that at this point, the text is excessively spaced out.
setMiniConsoleFontSize("myConsole",12)
Now, the spaces collapse, and the text appears as it should.