terminal styling Archives

12 Best Free and Open Source Terminal String Styling Tools

Adding color and styling to terminal output helps make a command line interface more engaging, informative, and easy to understand.

ansi-colors is a fast Node.js library for terminal styling. It’s billed as a more performant drop-in replacement for chalk, with no dependencies.

kleur bills itself as the fastest Node.js library for formatting terminal text with ANSI colors. It’s written in JavaScript.

picocolors is billed as the tiniest and the fastest library for terminal output formatting with ANSI colors.

Sty provides a simple, customizable and performant string styling markup, which is decoupled from color palettes and terminal implementations.

yachalk is a feature-complete clone of the Chalk (JavaScript) library.

colored is a simple Python library for color and formatting in terminal

ansicolors add ANSI colors and decorations to your strings. This is free and open source software written in Python.

termcolor offers ANSI color formatting for output in the terminal. It’s written in Python.

colorette is a tool which lets you easily set your terminal text color and styles.

yoctocolors bills itself as the smallest and fastest command-line coloring package.

Chalk bills itself as “Terminal string styling done right”. Chalk is mature, reliable, and built to last.