🎨 Colorway

Python package to change the text color of the python console.

📦 Installation

Run the following to install:

$ pip install colorway

🚀 Usage

Foreground

from colorway_foreground import *

# Generate red text with default background
print(red_fg("Hello, World!"))

# Generate bold red text with default background
print(bold_red_fg("Hello, World!"))

# Generate high-intensity red text with default background
print(highintensity_red_fg("Hello, World!"))

# Generate high-intensity bold red text with default background
print(highintensity_bold_red_fg("Hello, World!"))

# Generate custom colored text (red: 150, green: 78, blue: 120) with default background
print(custom_fg(150,78,120,"Hello, World!"))

Background

from colorway_background import *

# Generate text with red background
print(red_bg("Hello, World!"))

# Generate text with high-intensity red background
print(highintensity_red_bg("Hello, World!"))

# Generate text with custom colored background (red: 150, green: 78, blue: 120)
print(custom_bg(150,78,120,"Hello, World!"))

Foreground & Background

You can use foreground formatting and background formatting by placing them in each other.

from colorway_foreground import *
from colorway_background import *

# Generate red text with blue background
print(red_fg(blue_bg("Hello, World!")))

Manual

You can also use the manual package to manually format parts of strings.

from colorway_manual import *

# Generate red text
print(f'{foreground.red}Hello, World!{format.clear}')

# Generate text with red background
print(f'{background.red}Hello, World!{format.clear}')

# Generate text with a mix of colors
print(f'{foreground.red}Hello, {background.blue}World!{format.clear}')

Available colors

The colors available to use are:

• ⬛ Black
• 🟥 Red
• 🟩 Green
• 🟨 Yellow
• 🟦 Blue
• 🟪 Purple
• 🟦 Cyan
• ⬜ White

Note

Please be aware that you can not combine foreground and background formatting if you use high-intensity colors.
Please be aware that custom colors may not be supported by all terminal outputs.

👨‍💻 Developing Colorway

To install colorway, along with the tools you need to develop and run tests, run the following in your virtualenv:

$ pip install -e .[dev]

🚦 Development Progress

Stable Development