# tomakita/Colorful.Console

Style your .NET console output!

Repository: https://github.com/tomakita/Colorful.Console
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/colorfulconsole
Language: C#
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-06-06T07:55:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3944, "days_push": 818, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1328, forks 130 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:23.742576+00:00)

## What it is
Colorful.Console is a C# library that wraps System.Console to add enhanced color styling to .NET console output. It supports full System.Drawing.Color usage, multi-color text formatting, and alternating colors across writes.

## Use cases
- print colored console output in C#
- style console text with RGB colors in .NET
- format console strings with multiple colors
- alternate console line colors automatically
- replace System.Console with a color-aware wrapper

## When to choose
- you build .NET console apps and want rich per-token or per-line colors
- you need System.Drawing.Color support in terminal output
- you want a drop-in Console replacement with formatting helpers

## When to avoid
- you target non-Windows terminals where ANSI escape codes suffice
- you need TUI layouts rather than styled text output
- your project is not on the .NET platform

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: windows, cross-platform, dotnet
- tags: console-output, csharp, colors, terminal-styling, nuget, command-line

## Member repositories
- tomakita/Colorful.Console (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:23.742576+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:45:58.985648+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tomakita/Colorful.Console (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:23.742576+00:00, sha 319c1a4dc912)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.