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CLUSTER CONSOLE-OUTPUT-TERMINAL · 10 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2012-01-19

Terminal ANSI color utilities

This cluster of nine libraries and utilities provides ANSI terminal color and styling capabilities, including color detection, cursor control, and palette previews. Entries are dated from 2012 through 2025, with three appearing in 2020 and the rest scattered across other years. Traction leaders are clrblk, python-blessings, and lua-ansicolors, though all show zero stars in activity signals.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JAN 2012: 1DEC 2019: 1FEB 2020: 1APR 2020: 1OCT 2020: 1MAR 2021: 1JUN 2022: 1APR 2023: 1AUG 2024: 1APR 2025: 1
JAN 2012APR 2025

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 · 4 hand-coded · 6 unlabelled

Operator · 10 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 10 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01clrblk0★4 moliveopen sourceTerminal utility that displays and tests color palettes to preview terminal color schemes.
  2. 02python-blessings0★1 moliveopen sourceWraps terminal coloring, styling, and cursor positioning for easier text output.
  3. 03python-neotermcolor0★11 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal coloring tool that applies modern ANSI color formatting to console output for enhanced readability.
  4. 04lua-ansicolors0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceANSI terminal color manipulation library for Lua.
  5. 05python-easyansi0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceProvides an API for ANSI colors, cursor control, and line/box drawing in terminal applications.
  6. 06python2-colorama0★2 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceLibrary that adds ANSI color codes for cross-platform colored terminal text output.
  7. 07ruby-tty-color0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDetects terminal color capabilities for enhanced output.
  8. 08python-couleur0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceProvides ANSI terminal color and styling utilities for Python developers to enhance console output.
  9. 09mem0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal utility that displays memory data with colorized output for inspection in consoles.
  10. 10python-painter0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceColors terminal text with expressive styles to enhance console output visually.

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