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 · 5 hand-coded · 15 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.
- 21peachy-bin0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceA terminal utility that extracts colors from images and generates custom terminal color themes for users.
- 22python-ansimarkup0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceProduces colored terminal text using XML-like markup.
- 23python-reprint0★8 mostaleliveopen sourcePython module for binding variables and refreshing multi-line terminal output.
- 24python-pygradientify0★9 mostaleliveopen sourcePython library to add gradient colors to terminal UI.
- 25ruby-text-table0★10 mostaleliveopen sourceCreates and formats plain text tables for terminal output.
- 26chromazone0★10 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal utility that colorizes command-line output.
- 27ruby-pastel0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal string styling library for adding colors and formatting to command-line output.
- 28gentoo-color-bash0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal color theme and bash prompt customization for users.
- 29lua-warna0★15 daysliveopen sourceTerminal text styling library for Lua.
- 30cwatch0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal utility that periodically re-runs a user command and displays formatted, color-correct output in the terminal.
- 31perl-app-cope0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal utility that wraps command output to add colour while preserving the original text, enhancing readability and aesthetics.
- 32python-sty0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDeveloper library for styling text in the terminal, providing colored and formatted string output for command-line applications.
- 33ruby-colorls0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal utility that beautifies directory listings with colors and icons.
- 34roflcat0★2 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line tool that colors terminal text with rainbow effects, similar to lolcat but faster.
- 35r-crayon0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceR package that adds colored text output to terminal console messages.
- 36vincent-bin0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line utility that lets users browse and apply color schemes to their terminal environment.
- 37nodejs-termcolors0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceConverts terminal color schemes between formats.
- 38sanctity0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal utility that displays all combinations of the 16 basic colors for testing.
- 39python-clicolor0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceReference utility for terminal color escape codes.
- 40rgb-tui-bin0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal utility for creating and retrieving color codes through an interactive interface.
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