owo-colors is a zero-allocation Rust library for adding colours and text styling to terminal output. It is compatible with no_std environments and imposes no dependencies by default.
The library supports standard ANSI colours, 256-colour terminals and RGB true colour. Colours can be selected at compile time through generic types or dynamically at runtime.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Adds foreground and background colours to terminal output.
- Supports standard ANSI colours, bright variants, 256-colour terminals and RGB true colour.
- Provides text styles including bold, underline and strikethrough.
- Works with all standard Rust formatting traits.
- Offers zero-allocation and
no_std-compatible operation. - Requires no dependencies with its default configuration.
- Allows colours to be selected statically with generic types or dynamically at runtime.
- Can detect whether a terminal supports colour.
- Honours the
NO_COLORandFORCE_COLORenvironment variables. - Allows colour support to be overridden programmatically.
- Uses entirely safe Rust code.
Website: github.com/owo-colors/owo-colors
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Developer: jam1garner
License: MIT License
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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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