CLUSTER TERMINAL-OUTPUT-LIBRARY · 43 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2011-04-01
Terminal text coloring libraries
This cluster consists of command-line utilities and developer libraries for adding color, syntax highlighting, and visual styling to terminal text output. Entries have appeared steadily from 2006 through 2026, with occasional months recording two new member ideas, reflecting sustained interest rather than concentrated bursts. The traction leaders are hypa-ttfx-bin, rich-cli, and python-colored, each currently at zero stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
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 · 3 hand-coded · 17 unlabelled
Operator · 20 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01rich-cli0★1 moliveopen sourceCommand-line toolbox that enhances terminal output with formatted text, tables, and syntax highlighting.
- 02python-colored0★1 moliveopen sourceA library that adds color and formatting options to terminal output.
- 03powerls0★2 moliveopen sourceTerminal tool that lists directory contents with color-coded file types and enhanced formatting compared to standard listing commands.
- 04colorize-cli0★3 moliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that colorizes terminal text using named, hex, or 256-color indexes.
- 05ruby-colored0★4 moliveopen sourceRuby library that adds color to terminal text output for enhanced readability.
- 06chameleon0★4 moliveopen sourceTool that standardizes terminal output with a cohesive theme.
- 07python-tcolorpy0★4 moliveopen sourceLibrary for applying true color to terminal text.
- 08colorizer-bin0★10 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal utility that highlights specified words in command-line output for easier readability.
- 09pipecolor-bin0★10 mostaleliveopen sourceA terminal filter that colorizes command output for better readability.
- 10python-chromaterm0★11 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal tool that colorizes output lines using regular expressions.
- 11python-colorful0★11 mostaleliveopen sourceA library for styling terminal strings with colors and effects.
- 12python-string-color0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDeveloper module for printing strings in 256 colors in the terminal, used to add color to command-line output.
- 13python3-colorsysplus0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceLibrary extending standard color conversion with CMYK, terminal, and ANSI color support.
- 14nodejs-chalk0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceLibrary that adds colors and styling to text output in the terminal.
- 15cli-pride-flags0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal utility that displays pride flags using colored text in the command line.
- 16ttynt0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that highlights and colors terminal text output according to user-defined regular expression patterns.
- 17ruby-smart_colored0★9 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal library for adding colors and formatting to command-line output.
- 18bashish0★8 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceA terminal customization tool that changes colors, fonts, transparency, and backgrounds for each application.
- 19python-yachalk0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourcePython library that provides enhanced terminal string styling for colored and formatted text output in the command line.
- 20guesswidth-bin0★4 moliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that guesses column widths for fixed-width terminal output.
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