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CLUSTER COLORED-PRINTING-TERMINAL · 5 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2020-04-12

Terminal colored text output

This cluster comprises small libraries and utilities for styling terminal output: Python and C++ (header-only) libraries for colored text, a pixel-to-ANSI output library, and a banner-printing utility. The dated histories are sparse, with single entries in 2020-04, 2023-08, 2023-12, 2024-07 and 2026-04, showing no clear trend. All three traction leaders show zero activity stars, so no member has emerged as a leader.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

APR 2020: 1AUG 2023: 1DEC 2023: 1JUL 2024: 1APR 2026: 1
APR 2020APR 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 5 unlabelled

Operator · 5 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 5 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01banner0★6 moliveopen sourceTerminal utility that prints supplied text as large ASCII banners.
  2. 02python-print-color0★1 moliveopen sourcePython wrapper for printing colored text to the terminal.
  3. 03terxels0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceHeader-only C++ library for outputting pixels to ANSI terminals.
  4. 04tcolor0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceHeader library for printing colored text in terminal applications.
  5. 05termcolor0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceHeader-only C++ library for printing colored text to the terminal.

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