🌈Colorette

Easily set your terminal text color & styles.

No dependecies
Automatic color support detection
Up to 2x faster than alternatives
TypeScript support
NO_COLOR friendly
Node >= 10

Upgrading from Colorette 1.x?

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	~~strikethrough~~
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