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Chalk
Expressive styling on terminal string.
Highlights
- Expressive API
- 256/TrueColor support
- Nest styles
- Auto downgrading to terminal supported color
- No extensions on
String - rgb & hsl & hsv & hex
- Built-in 100+ beautiful colors
Usage
Chalk's API is very similar to chalk -- one of the most popular packages on npm.
print(chalk.cyan.on("cyan")) // `ck` is an alias to `chalk`
// chainable
print(ck.red.bgBlue.italic.underline.on("red bgBlue italic underline"))
// combine terminal string and string
print(ck.red.on("ERROR") + " something went wrong. " + ck.green.on("but no worry! I will..."))
// rgb & hsl & hsv & hex support
print(ck.fg(.rgb(0, 92, 197)).bg(.hex(0xFA4B8B)).on("meow"))
// custom foreground color and background color with 100+ handpicked colors
print(ck.fg(.darkMagenta).bg(.lightGoldenRodYellow).bold.on("hi"))
// nest
print(ck.magenta.underline.on("begin" + ck.red.bold.on("important") + "end"))
print(ck.magenta.underline.on("begin", ck.red.bold.on("important"), "end"))
Styles
Modifiers
reset
bold
faint // aka dim, not widely supported.
italic
underline
blink
reverse
conceal // aka hidden, not widely supported.
crossedOut // aka strikethrough, not widely supported.
Colors
The powerful color system is built on Rainbow.
Ansi16
// with `bg` prefix will set background color
black
red
green
yellow
blue
magenta
cyan
white
blackBright
redBright
greenBright
yellowBright
blueBright
magentaBright
cyanBright
whiteBright
256/TrueColoe
ck.fg(.rgb(0, 100, 200))
ck.fg(.hsl(300, 50, 50))
ck.fg(.hsv(300, 50, 50))
ck.bg(.hex(0x123456))
ck.bg(.hex("#123456")
ck.bg(.hex("#abc")
Built-in 100+ beautiful colors
let color = Color.Material.red50
let color = Color.Material.purple500
let color = Color.CSS.navy
let color = Color.CSS.tomato
ck.fg(color)
ck.bg(color)
//...
Install
dependencies: [
.package(url: "https://github.com/luoxiu/Chalk", from: "0.1.0")
]
pod 'Chalk', '~> 0.1.0'
Acknowledge
Inspired by the awesome javascript library chalk.
Related
- Rainbow - 🌈 Color conversion and manipulation library for Swift with no dependence on UIKit/AppKit.
Contribute
If you find a bug, open an issue, if you want to add new features, feel free to submit a pull request. Any contributing is welcome at all times!
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the Crayon README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.