The most minimal terminal colour and style crate. Contains constants with colour and style codes. Just throw them into your string and bob's your uncle.
rust
use zen_colour::*;
println!("{}this is red{}", RED, RESET);
Styles: - RESET - BOLD - FAINT - ITALIC - UNDERLINED - BLINK - EFFECT6 - EFFECT7 - HIDDEN - CROSSED
Text colours: - BLACK - RED - GREEN - YELLOW - BLUE - MAGENTA - CYAN - WHITE
Background colours: - BGBLACK - BGRED - BGGREEN - BGYELLOW - BGBLUE - BGMAGENTA - BGCYAN - BGWHITE
If you don't like the constant names.
rust
use zen_colours::*;
const R: &str = RED;
The standard colours are chosen by the user. They want to see those colours. The non standard colours (RGB for example) are not chosen by the user. They will just clash with the standard colours and your application doesn't look consistent with others on the users system. They must never be used. Never. If you are that prick that doesn't use my standard colours and mess up my terminal aesthetics: fuck you.
There are many crates that do the same. With all kinds of handy functions. There are different styles of library design.
rust
println!("red".colour(red))
print_colour("red", red);
But in the end, it all annoyed me, especially when do doing more complex colouring.
For example, if you want to colour a date string but want all the '/' to be faint.
Then have more colours in the same line for different values.
This is just a mess or mega verbose with any library design no matter how reasonable.
I just ended up throwing the colour codes right into the print! or format!.
And now we are here.
Nice, easy, clean, no complexity, just colours and styles.
no.