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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| sty | String styling for your terminal |
| termcolor | ANSI color formatting for output in the terminal |
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| ansicolors | ANSI colors for Python |
| ansi-colors | Add ANSI colors to terminal text |
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