anstyle is a collection of Rust libraries for defining, parsing, converting and applying ANSI terminal styles. Its core crate provides common styling types that allow libraries to exchange colour and formatting information without exposing a particular terminal-styling implementation through their public APIs.
The project prioritises API stability, minimal compile-time and binary-size overhead, and const-friendly interfaces for statically defined styles. The core library can also operate without Rust’s standard library.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Defines interoperable types for ANSI colours, effects, styles and reset sequences.
- Supports standard, 256-colour and RGB terminal colours.
- Provides a const-friendly API for defining styles at compile time.
- Offers optional
no_stdoperation. - Includes parsers for Git-style colour descriptions and
LS_COLORSconfigurations. - Parses ANSI style escape sequences.
- Converts styled terminal output to SVG and roff formats.
- Integrates with ansi_term, crossterm, owo-colors, syntect, termcolor and yansi.
- Provides cross-platform coloured output through the companion anstream crate.
- Supports styling on legacy Microsoft Windows consoles.
- Allows conversion between different colour representations.
Website: rust-cli/anstyle
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Developer: rust-cli team
License: MIT License or Apache License 2.0
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Related Software
| Terminal String Styling Libraries | |
|---|---|
| color | Go package for adding colour to terminal output |
| termenv | Advanced ANSI styling and terminal rendering for Go |
| owo_colors | Zero-allocation terminal colour library for Rust |
| Ansis | Small, fast library for styling terminal text |
| anstyle | Rust libraries for ANSI text styling |
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