> Easily add ANSI colors to your text and symbols in the terminal. A faster drop-in replacement for chalk, kleur and turbocolor (without the dependencies and rendering bugs).
Please consider following this project's author, [Brian Woodward](https://github.com/doowb), and consider starring the project to show your :heart: and support.
ansi-colors is _the fastest Node.js library for terminal styling_. A more performant drop-in replacement for chalk, with no dependencies.
* _Blazing fast_ - Fastest terminal styling library in node.js, 10-20x faster than chalk!
* _Drop-in replacement_ for [chalk](https://github.com/chalk/chalk).
* _No dependencies_ (Chalk has 7 dependencies in its tree!)
* _Safe_ - Does not modify the `String.prototype` like [colors](https://github.com/Marak/colors.js).
* Supports [nested colors](#nested-colors), **and does not have the [nested styling bug](#nested-styling-bug) that is present in [colorette](https://github.com/jorgebucaran/colorette), [chalk](https://github.com/chalk/chalk), and [kleur](https://github.com/lukeed/kleur)**.
* Supports [chained colors](#chained-colors).
*[Toggle color support](#toggle-color-support) on or off.
## Usage
```js
constc=require('ansi-colors');
console.log(c.red('This is a red string!'));
console.log(c.green('This is a red string!'));
console.log(c.cyan('This is a cyan string!'));
console.log(c.yellow('This is a yellow string!'));
`ansi-colors` does not have the nested styling bug found in [colorette](https://github.com/jorgebucaran/colorette), [chalk](https://github.com/chalk/chalk), and [kleur](https://github.com/lukeed/kleur).
_(`gray` is the U.S. spelling, `grey` is more commonly used in the Canada and U.K.)_
### Style modifiers
* dim
***bold**
* hidden
* _italic_
* underline
* inverse
* ~~strikethrough~~
* reset
## Aliases
Create custom aliases for styles.
```js
constcolors=require('ansi-colors');
colors.alias('primary',colors.yellow);
colors.alias('secondary',colors.bold);
console.log(colors.primary.secondary('Foo'));
```
## Themes
A theme is an object of custom aliases.
```js
constcolors=require('ansi-colors');
colors.theme({
danger:colors.red,
dark:colors.dim.gray,
disabled:colors.gray,
em:colors.italic,
heading:colors.bold.underline,
info:colors.cyan,
muted:colors.dim,
primary:colors.blue,
strong:colors.bold,
success:colors.green,
underline:colors.underline,
warning:colors.yellow
});
// Now, we can use our custom styles alongside the built-in styles!
console.log(colors.danger.strong.em('Error!'));
console.log(colors.warning('Heads up!'));
console.log(colors.info('Did you know...'));
console.log(colors.success.bold('It worked!'));
```
## Performance
**Libraries tested**
* ansi-colors v3.0.4
* chalk v2.4.1
### Mac
> MacBook Pro, Intel Core i7, 2.3 GHz, 16 GB.
**Load time**
Time it takes to load the first time `require()` is called:
* ansi-colors - `1.915ms`
* chalk - `12.437ms`
**Benchmarks**
```
# All Colors
ansi-colors x 173,851 ops/sec ±0.42% (91 runs sampled)
chalk x 9,944 ops/sec ±2.53% (81 runs sampled)))
# Chained colors
ansi-colors x 20,791 ops/sec ±0.60% (88 runs sampled)
chalk x 2,111 ops/sec ±2.34% (83 runs sampled)
# Nested colors
ansi-colors x 59,304 ops/sec ±0.98% (92 runs sampled)
chalk x 4,590 ops/sec ±2.08% (82 runs sampled)
```
### Windows
> Windows 10, Intel Core i7-7700k CPU @ 4.2 GHz, 32 GB
**Load time**
Time it takes to load the first time `require()` is called:
* ansi-colors - `1.494ms`
* chalk - `11.523ms`
**Benchmarks**
```
# All Colors
ansi-colors x 193,088 ops/sec ±0.51% (95 runs sampled))
chalk x 9,612 ops/sec ±3.31% (77 runs sampled)))
# Chained colors
ansi-colors x 26,093 ops/sec ±1.13% (94 runs sampled)
chalk x 2,267 ops/sec ±2.88% (80 runs sampled))
# Nested colors
ansi-colors x 67,747 ops/sec ±0.49% (93 runs sampled)
chalk x 4,446 ops/sec ±3.01% (82 runs sampled))
```
## About
<details>
<summary><strong>Contributing</strong></summary>
Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, [please create an issue](../../issues/new).
</details>
<details>
<summary><strong>Running Tests</strong></summary>
Running and reviewing unit tests is a great way to get familiarized with a library and its API. You can install dependencies and run tests with the following command:
```sh
$ npm install&& npm test
```
</details>
<details>
<summary><strong>Building docs</strong></summary>
_(This project's readme.md is generated by [verb](https://github.com/verbose/verb-generate-readme), please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in the [.verb.md](.verb.md) readme template.)_
To generate the readme, run the following command:
*[ansi-wrap](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ansi-wrap): Create ansi colors by passing the open and close codes. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-wrap"Create ansi colors by passing the open and close codes.")
*[strip-color](https://www.npmjs.com/package/strip-color): Strip ANSI color codes from a string. No dependencies. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/strip-color"Strip ANSI color codes from a string. No dependencies.")
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Default: `false`*(Matches any ANSI escape codes in a string)*
Match only the first ANSI escape.
## FAQ
### Why do you test for codes not in the ECMA 48 standard?
Some of the codes we run as a test are codes that we acquired finding various lists of non-standard or manufacturer specific codes. We test for both standard and non-standard codes, as most of them follow the same or similar format and can be safely matched in strings without the risk of removing actual string content. There are a few non-standard control codes that do not follow the traditional format (i.e. they end in numbers) thus forcing us to exclude them from the test because we cannot reliably match them.
On the historical side, those ECMA standards were established in the early 90's whereas the VT100, for example, was designed in the mid/late 70's. At that point in time, control codes were still pretty ungoverned and engineers used them for a multitude of things, namely to activate hardware ports that may have been proprietary. Somewhere else you see a similar 'anarchy' of codes is in the x86 architecture for processors; there are a ton of "interrupts" that can mean different things on certain brands of processors, most of which have been phased out.
## Maintainers
-[Sindre Sorhus](https://github.com/sindresorhus)
-[Josh Junon](https://github.com/qix-)
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By default, you get a map of styles, but the styles are also available as groups. They are non-enumerable so they don't show up unless you access them explicitly. This makes it easier to expose only a subset in a higher-level module.
-`style.modifier`
-`style.color`
-`style.bgColor`
###### Example
```js
console.log(style.color.green.open);
```
Raw escape codes (i.e. without the CSI escape prefix `\u001B[` and render mode postfix `m`) are available under `style.codes`, which returns a `Map` with the open codes as keys and close codes as values.
###### Example
```js
console.log(style.codes.get(36));
//=> 39
```
## [256 / 16 million (TrueColor) support](https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728)
`ansi-styles` uses the [`color-convert`](https://github.com/Qix-/color-convert) package to allow for converting between various colors and ANSI escapes, with support for 256 and 16 million colors.
To use these, call the associated conversion function with the intended output, for example:
```js
style.color.ansi.rgb(100,200,15);// RGB to 16 color ansi foreground code
style.bgColor.ansi.rgb(100,200,15);// RGB to 16 color ansi background code
style.color.ansi256.hsl(120,100,60);// HSL to 256 color ansi foreground code
style.bgColor.ansi256.hsl(120,100,60);// HSL to 256 color ansi foreground code
style.color.ansi16m.hex('#C0FFEE');// Hex (RGB) to 16 million color foreground code
style.bgColor.ansi16m.hex('#C0FFEE');// Hex (RGB) to 16 million color background code
```
## Related
-[ansi-escapes](https://github.com/sindresorhus/ansi-escapes) - ANSI escape codes for manipulating the terminal
