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ajalt/mordant

Multiplatform text styling for Kotlin command-line applications observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/ajalt/mordant · homepage · Kotlin · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

74/100

  • Activity 98
  • Release rhythm 28
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 79.5
  • age_days: 3265
  • days_rel: 564
  • days_push: 15
  • n_releases_24m: 3

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1235 stars · 49 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

Mordant is a Kotlin multiplatform library for rendering styled text in the terminal, including ANSI colors, tables, panels, markdown rendering, and widget animations. It automatically detects terminal capabilities and is distributed via Maven Central.

Use cases

  • add colored ANSI output to a Kotlin CLI app
  • render tables and panels in the terminal
  • show progress bars and animated dashboards in a console app
  • render markdown directly in the terminal
  • style terminal text with automatic capability detection

When to choose

  • you're building a Kotlin or Kotlin Multiplatform command-line application that needs styled output
  • you want terminal widgets like tables, lists, and progress bars with animation support
  • you need markdown rendering in a console interface

When to avoid

  • you need a full TUI framework with keyboard input handling and complex layouts
  • your project is not on the JVM/Kotlin ecosystem
  • you only need simple ANSI color codes in a non-Kotlin language

Facets

library · maturity active

terminal-ui developer-tools markdown animation developer-tools cross-platform jvm cli cross-platform ansi-colors text-styling progress-bars tables kotlin-multiplatform command-line

2 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
ajalt/mordantmain74

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