Coloring terminal ouput

term-painter is a Rust library for coloring and formatting terminal output. It provides easy ways to format various things and uses the crate rust-lang/term to do the actual formatting. Example:

println!("{} | {} | {} | {} | {}",
    Red.bg(Green).bold().paint("Red-Green-Bold"),
    Blue.paint("Blue"),
    Blue.bold().paint("BlueBold"),
    Blue.bg(Magenta).paint("BlueMagentaBG"),
    Plain.underline().paint("Underline"));

Red.with(|| {
    print!("JustRed");
    Bold.with(|| {
        print!(" BoldRed {} BoldRed ", Underline.paint("Underline"));
    });
    print!("JustRed ");

    print!("{}", Blue.paint("Blue (overwrite) "));
    Green.with(|| {
        println!("Green (overwrite)");
    });
});

It's easy to use and integrates well with println!/print!. The main design goal was to make it simple. This has one performance disadvantage: It will reset the terminal style after each printing operation. But performance isn't usually hugly important when printing on the terminal, so simplicity is more important.

More examples here (examples/main.rs) or in the Documentation.

Usage

Just add extern crate term_painter; in your crate root and the dependency in your Cargo.toml file:

[dependencies]
term-painter = "*"

Collaboration

Yes please! If you find a bug, have any feature request or anything else: Please open a issue or create a pull request.

Thanks

I've got some design ideas from rust-ansi-term. I decided to make my own crate though, since my goals were too different from ansi-term.