console-rs/console

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1190 stars · 141 forks observed · 2026-09-03

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

console is a Rust library providing a cross-platform terminal abstraction through the Term type, with utilities for colors, styles, ANSI code handling, and text measurement. It is a foundational building block for building nicer command line interfaces in Rust.

Use cases

• style terminal output with colors in rust
• detect tty and enable/disable colors automatically
• strip ansi escape codes from strings
• measure displayed text width with unicode support
• clear or write terminal lines programmatically
• build cross-platform cli tools in rust

When to choose

• you need low-level terminal access and text styling in a Rust CLI
• you want automatic color detection following the clicolors standard
• you need ANSI stripping or text width measurement for formatting
• you are building on top of dialoguer or indicatif

When to avoid

• you need full-featured TUI layouts or widgets (use ratatui instead)
• you need interactive prompts or progress bars (use dialoguer or indicatif)
• your project is not written in Rust

Facets

library · maturity stable

terminal-ui developer-tools cli developer-tools cross-platform rust windows cli ansi-codes terminal-colors text-styling unicode-width tty-detection command-line linux macos

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