Color – Go package for adding ANSI colours

Color is a Go package for adding ANSI colours and text attributes to terminal output.

It provides convenient helper functions, reusable colour definitions and support for standard and 24-bit RGB colours.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Prints text using standard ANSI foreground and background colours.
• Supports bold, italic, underline, blink, reverse-video and other text attributes.
• Provides 24-bit RGB foreground and background colours.
• Combines multiple colours and attributes into reusable definitions.
• Offers Print, Printf, Println and string-formatting helper functions.
• Writes coloured output to custom io.Writer destinations.
• Can apply colours to existing fmt-based code using Set and Unset functions.
• Automatically disables colour for non-terminal output streams.
• Respects the NO_COLOR environment variable.
• Allows colour output to be enabled or disabled globally or per colour definition.
• Supports Linux, macOS and Windows.

Website: github.com/fatih/color
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Developer: Fatih Arslan
License: MIT License

Color is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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