Coloform

Similar to colorama by Jonathan Hartley this project aims to provide a simple interface for coloring terminal output, contrary to colorama it doesn't try to provide support for Windows. If you need Windows support, or run this on something other than a mainstream terminal emulator, this is probably not for you.

Concept

Usage is very similar to colorama, you have objects for foreground, background, styles and cursor. These are prefixed with Rich, to differentiate them from the colorama objects (if for some reason you have to, like me, have both packages available).

Coloramas Cursor is unchanged and available for convenience.

from coloform import Fore, Back, Style

msg = (
    f"Look ma: {Style.UNDERLINED}more{Style.RESET_UNDERLINED} {Style.ITALICS}styles{Style.RESET_ITALICS}, "
    f"than we {Style.BOLD}ever{Style.RESET_ALL} "
    f"{Style.STRIKE_OUT}wanted{Style.RESET_STRIKE_OUT} "
    f"{Style.BLINK}needed{Style.RESET_BLINK}!\n"
    f"Also, {Fore.HEX_1234FF}HEX{Fore.RESET} and {Fore.RGB_0_255_255}RGB{Fore.RESET} "
    f"colors for {Style.DOUBLE_UNDERLINED}fore- and {Back.RGB_255_0_255}background{Style.RESET_ALL}.\n"
    f"Common {Fore.RED}aliases {Back.GREEN}just{Fore.RESET} work!{Style.RESET_ALL}"
)

print(msg)

Features loads of useless aliases (Style.UNDERLINE == Style.UNDERLINED etc.).

Why

Because it's not the 90s anymore, and screw compatibility. Also, I like to see bad UI design in terminals, and this is my contribution towards that.

Thanks

Thanks to Sascha Peilicke for his documentation work around ANSI escape codes.