Terminal Style - simple text styling for your terminal

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Styling text in a terminal is a pain and weirdly, there are no libraries that are both simple to use and multi-task for this. So I made a very simple lightweight Python library for styling terminal text with colors, backgrounds, and text effects. No complex features, no hassle.

install using pip: pip install -U terminal-style

Using terminal-style : 3 tools that will make your life easier

• sprint acts like print but allows you to style the text :

sprint("Hello, world!", color="red", bold=True)

• style is a function that returns a styled string formatted terminal use. Can be used in regular print statements :

print(
  style("Hello", color="red", bold=True),
  style("old", color="blue", italic=True),
  style("friend", color="green", underline=True),
  style("!", color="yellow", bold=True),
)

• spinner is a function that will show a spinner in the terminal : the spinner will stop automatically when a next line is printed in the terminal. It runs in parallel, so don't worry about blocking the main thread.

spinner("Processing...", color="cyan", bold=True, type="dots")

Available Styles

color/bg_color	Spinner	Text Effect
black	dots ⠋	bold
red	line |	dim
green	arrow ←	italic
yellow	bouncingBar [ ]	underline
blue	bouncingBall ( ● )	blink
magenta/purple	earth 🌍	reverse
cyan	moon 🌑	hidden
white	weather ☀️	strikethrough
bright_black/gray/grey	hearts 💛	strike
bright_red	growHorizontal ▏	double_underline
bright_green	modern ▰▱▱▱▱▱▱	overline
bright_yellow	growVertical ▁
bright_blue
bright_magenta
bright_purple
bright_cyan
bright_white
orange
pink
light_pink
deep_pink
lime
gold
navy
maroon
olive
teal
silver
brown
indigo
violet
turquoise
coral
salmon
khaki
crimson
forest_green
sky_blue
lavender
peach
mint

Incoming Features

• automatic indentation of text
• pre-built styles for common use cases
• support for custom styles

Development

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

git clone https://github.com/colinfrisch/terminal-style
cd terminal-style
pip install -e .

Install development dependencies:

pip install -e ".[dev]"

Run tests:

pytest
# or
python run_tests.py

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Author : Colin Frisch - linkedin.com/colinfrisch

Make your terminal output beautiful and readable with terminal-style!