lukeed/kleur

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

1696 stars · 52 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

Kleur is a tiny, dependency-free Node.js library for formatting terminal text with ANSI colors and styles. It supports chained and nested color methods, conditional color detection, and is fully treeshakable.

Use cases

• colorize CLI output in Node.js
• add ANSI colors to terminal logs
• format console messages with bold, underline, and background colors
• style terminal text without heavy dependencies
• conditionally disable colors in non-TTY output
• build colorful command-line tool output

When to choose

• you need the smallest, fastest ANSI color library for Node.js
• you want zero dependencies and treeshakable imports
• you need chained/nested color styling similar to Chalk's API
• bundle size and load time matter for your CLI

When to avoid

• you need browser/DOM text styling rather than terminal output
• you need 256-color or truecolor support beyond basic ANSI styles
• you want a plugin ecosystem or extensive color-detection features like Chalk

Facets

library · maturity stable

cli developer-tools developer-tools cli ansi-colors terminal-text zero-dependency treeshakable command-line nodejs

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