Colorette

Easily set the color and style of text in the terminal.

• No wonky prototype method-chain API.

• Automatic color support detection.

• Up to 2x faster than alternatives.

• NO_COLOR friendly. 👌

Here's the first example to get you started.

import { blue, bold, underline } from "colorette"

console.log(
  blue("I'm blue"),
  bold(blue("da ba dee")),
  underline(bold(blue("da ba daa")))
)

Here's an example using template literals.

console.log(`
  There's a ${underline(blue("house"))},
  With a ${bold(blue("window"))},
  And a ${blue("corvette")}
  And everything is blue
`)

Of course, you can nest styles without breaking existing color sequences.

console.log(bold(`I'm ${blue(`da ba ${underline("dee")} da ba`)} daa`))

Feeling adventurous? Try the pipeline operator.

console.log("Da ba dee da ba daa" |> blue |> bold)

Installation

npm install colorette

API

<style>(string)

import { blue } from "colorette"

blue("I'm blue") //=> \x1b[34mI'm blue\x1b[39m

See supported styles.

options.enabled

Colorette automatically detects if your terminal can display color, but you can toggle color as needed.

import { options } from "colorette"

options.enabled = false

You can also force the use of color globally by setting FORCE_COLOR= or NO_COLOR= from the CLI.

$ FORCE_COLOR= node example.js >log
$ NO_COLOR= node example.js

Supported styles

Colors	Background Colors	Bright Colors	Bright Background Colors	Modifiers
black	bgBlack	blackBright	bgBlackBright	dim
red	bgRed	redBright	bgRedBright	bold
green	bgGreen	greenBright	bgGreenBright	hidden
yellow	bgYellow	yellowBright	bgYellowBright	italic
blue	bgBlue	blueBright	bgBlueBright	underline
magenta	bgMagenta	magentaBright	bgMagentaBright	strikethrough
cyan	bgCyan	cyanBright	bgCyanBright	reset
white	bgWhite	whiteBright	bgWhiteBright
gray

Benchmarks

npm --prefix bench start

License

MIT