🌈Colorette
Easily set your terminal text color & styles.
- No dependecies
- Automatic color support detection
- Up to 2x faster than alternatives
- TypeScript support
- NO_COLORfriendly
- Node >= 10
Quickstart
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
`)
You can also nest styles without breaking existing color sequences.
console.log(bold(`I'm ${blue(`da ba ${underline("dee")} da ba`)} daa`))
Need to override terminal color detection? You can do that too.
import { createColors } from "colorette"
const { blue } = createColors({ useColor: false })
console.log(blue("Blue? Nope, nah"))
Installation
npm install colorette
API
<color>()
See all supported colors.
import { blue } from "colorette"
blue("I'm blue") //=> \x1b[34mI'm blue\x1b[39m
createColors()
Override terminal color detection via createColors({ useColor }).
import { createColors } from "colorette"
const { blue } = createColors({ useColor: false })
isColorSupported
true if your terminal supports color, false otherwise. Used internally, but exposed for convenience.
Environment
You can override color detection from the CLI by setting the --no-color or --color flags.
$ ./example.js --no-color | ./consumer.js
Or if you can't use CLI flags, by setting the NO_COLOR= or FORCE_COLOR= environment variables.
$ NO_COLOR= ./example.js | ./consumer.js
Supported colors
| 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 | |
| cyan | bgCyan | cyanBright | bgCyanBright | reset | 
| white | bgWhite | whiteBright | bgWhiteBright | |
| gray | 
Benchmarks
npm --prefix bench start
  chalk         1,786,703 ops/sec
  kleur         1,618,960 ops/sec
  colors          646,823 ops/sec
  ansi-colors     786,149 ops/sec
  picocolors    2,871,758 ops/sec
+ colorette     3,002,751 ops/sec
Acknowledgments
Colorette started out in 2015 by @jorgebucaran as a lightweight alternative to Chalk and was introduced originally as Clor. Our terminal color detection logic borrows heavily from @sindresorhus and @Qix- work on Chalk. The idea of slicing strings to clear bleeding sequences was adapted from a similar technique used by @alexeyraspopov in picocolors. Thank you to all our contributors! <3