charmbracelet/lipgloss

Health v2 · maintenance only

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11753 stars · 391 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Lip Gloss is a Go library for styling and laying out terminal output with a declarative, CSS-like API. It handles colors (ANSI through truecolor with automatic downsampling), padding, borders, and alignment for building polished TUIs.

Use cases

• style terminal output with colors and bold text
• build TUI layouts with padding, borders, and alignment
• render styled CLI output that adapts to the terminal's color profile
• create nice-looking command-line tool interfaces
• compose terminal UI components for Bubble Tea apps
• downsample truecolor styles for limited terminals

When to choose

• you're writing a Go CLI or TUI and want attractive styled output
• you need CSS-like declarative styling for terminal rendering
• you want automatic color profile detection and downsampling
• you're building Bubble Tea apps and need layout and styling

When to avoid

• you need a full TUI framework with event handling (use Bubble Tea instead)
• you're not working in Go
• you only need simple one-off ANSI escape codes without layout features

Facets

library · maturity active

ui-components cli developer-tools developer-tools cross-platform go cli cross-platform tui terminal-styling layout ansi-colors css-like-styles charmbracelet command-line

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