picocolors is billed as the tiniest and the fastest library for terminal output formatting with ANSI colors.
Picocolors provides an object which includes a variety of text coloring and formatting functions. The object includes following coloring functions: black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white, and gray.
The object also includes following background color modifier functions: bgBlack, bgRed, bgGreen, bgYellow, bgBlue, bgMagenta, bgCyan, bgWhite and bright variants bgBlackBright, bgRedBright, bgGreenBright, bgYellowBright, bgBlueBright, bgMagentaBright, bgCyanBright, and bgWhiteBright.
Besides colors, the object includes following formatting functions: dim, bold, hidden, italic, underline, strikethrough, reset, inverse and bright variants blackBright, redBright, greenBright, yellowBright, blueBright, magentaBright, cyanBright, whiteBright.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- No dependencies.
- 14 times smaller and 2 times faster than chalk.
- Used by popular tools like PostCSS, SVGO, Stylelint, and Browserslist.
- Node.js v6+ & browsers support. Support for both CJS and ESM projects.
- TypeScript type declarations included.
- NO_COLOR friendly.
- Additional utilities:
- isColorSupported – boolean, explicitly tells whether or not the colors or formatting appear on the screen.
- createColors(enabled) – function that returns a new API object with manually defined color support configuration.
Website: github.com/alexeyraspopov/picocolors
Support:
Developer: Oleksii Raspopov, Kostiantyn Denysov, Anton Verinov
License: ISC License
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Related Software
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|---|---|
| Rich | Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting |
| Chalk | Bills itself as “Terminal string styling done right” |
| picocolors | Tiny and fast library for terminal output formatting |
| yoctocolors | Small and fast command-line coloring package |
| yachalk | Clone of Chalk written in Python |
| kleur | Node.js library for formatting terminal text with ANSI colors |
| 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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