Ansis is a small and fast JavaScript library for adding ANSI colours and text styles to terminal output. It works in terminals, continuous integration environments and Chromium-based browsers.
The library supports chainable styles and tagged template literals, including nested templates. It automatically detects colour support and falls back gracefully when true colour or 256-colour output is unavailable.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports standard 16-colour ANSI output, 256 colours and true colour.
- Specifies foreground and background colours using hexadecimal or RGB values.
- Provides bold, dim, italic, underline, strikethrough, inverse, hidden and other text styles.
- Combines colours and styles using a chainable syntax.
- Supports tagged template literals and deeply nested templates.
- Automatically detects the available colour level.
- Falls back from true colour to 256 colours, 16 colours or uncoloured output.
- Honours the NO_COLOR, FORCE_COLOR and COLORTERM environment variables.
- Recognises command-line flags for enabling or disabling colour output.
- Provides functions for stripping ANSI escape sequences and creating terminal hyperlinks.
- Supports ESM, CommonJS and TypeScript.
- Works with Node.js, Bun, Deno, CI services and Chromium-based browsers.
- Can act as a drop-in replacement for Chalk and several other terminal styling libraries.
Website: github.com/webdiscus/ansis
Support:
Developer: webdiscus
License: ISC License
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| colorette | Set your terminal text color and styles |
| sty | String styling for your terminal |
| termcolor | ANSI color formatting for output in the terminal |
| colored | Simple Python library for color and formatting in terminal |
| ansicolors | ANSI colors for Python |
| ansi-colors | Add ANSI colors to terminal text |
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