@zodash/colors

The smallest and fastest command-line coloring package on the internet. Trust me.

The only thing that matters is micro-benchmark performance! ⚡️

Check out Chalk if you want something more mature and comprehensive.

Features

• 4x faster and 5x smaller than nanocolors
• Cat friendly
• An additional color
• Tree-shakeable, not stirred
• Actively maintained (at least for another week)
• No dependencies

Install

npm install yoctocolors

Usage

import * as colors from '@znode/colors';

console.log(colors.red('Yo!'));

This package supports basic color detection. Colors can be forcefully enabled by setting the FORCE_COLOR environment variable to 1 and can be forcefully disabled by setting NO_COLOR or NODE_DISABLE_COLORS to any value. More info.

Styles

Modifiers

• reset - Reset the current style.
• bold - Make the text bold.
• dim - Make the text have lower opacity.
• italic - Make the text italic. (Not widely supported)
• underline - Put a horizontal line above the text. (Not widely supported)
• overline - Put a horizontal line below the text. (Not widely supported)
• inverse- Invert background and foreground colors.
• hidden - Print the text but make it invisible.
• strikethrough - Put a horizontal line through the center of the text. (Not widely supported)

Colors

• black
• red
• green
• yellow
• blue
• magenta
• cyan
• white
• gray

Background colors

• bgBlack
• bgRed
• bgGreen
• bgYellow
• bgBlue
• bgMagenta
• bgCyan
• bgWhite
• bgGray

Prior art

Yes

Benchmark

❯ ./test/simple-benchmark.js
nanocolors    31508276 ops/sec
picocolors    32524769 ops/sec
yoctocolors   132894792 ops/sec

Benchmark from nanocolors

FAQ

What is yocto?

It's the smallest official unit prefix in the metric system. Much smaller than nano.

Related

• yoctocolors - The smallest and fastest command-line coloring package on the internet
• yoctodelay - Delay a promise a given amount of time
• chalk - Terminal string styling