jorgebucaran/colorette
🌈Easily set your terminal text color & styles observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
43/100
- Activity 45
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4146
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 334
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1624 stars · 57 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Colorette is a tiny, dependency-free JavaScript library for styling terminal text with ANSI colors and modifiers. It offers automatic color support detection, NO_COLOR/FORCE_COLOR compliance, and TypeScript support for Node.js CLIs.
Use cases
- colorize CLI output in Node.js
- add bold, underline, and color styles to terminal text
- respect NO_COLOR and FORCE_COLOR environment variables
- style nested terminal strings without breaking ANSI sequences
- build fast command-line tools with colored output
When to choose
- you need a minimal, zero-dependency ANSI styling library
- performance matters and you want faster alternatives to chalk
- you need automatic terminal color detection with easy overrides
When to avoid
- you need rich styling features like 256-color or truecolor palettes with helpers
- you are styling browser DOM rather than terminal output
- you want a large ecosystem of plugins and themes
Facets
library · maturity stable
cli developer-tools developer-tools cli cross-platform ansi-colors terminal-styles zero-dependency no-color-support command-line nodejs
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/jorgebucaran/colorette · fetched 2026-08-28 · 54a274a1fa50
- registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/colorette · fetched 2026-08-29 · c97df39f54ad
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| jorgebucaran/colorette | main | 43 |
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