# JakubOnderka/PHP-Console-Color

Simple library for creating colored console ouput

Repository: https://github.com/JakubOnderka/PHP-Console-Color
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/php-console-color
Language: PHP
License: BSD-2-Clause
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2020-04-02T19:48:23+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4531, "days_push": 2344, "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 6114, forks 24 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:36.039993+00:00)

## What it is
A simple PHP library for creating colored console output. This original repository is abandoned; the maintained fork lives at php-parallel-lint/PHP-Console-Color.

## Use cases
- print colored text in a PHP CLI script
- add ANSI colors to terminal output
- highlight console messages with styles
- colorize command-line tool output in PHP

## When to choose
- you need a minimal dependency-free way to color PHP console output
- you are maintaining legacy code already using this library

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - use the php-parallel-lint/PHP-Console-Color fork instead
- you need advanced terminal styling or cross-platform rich text features

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: cli, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: php, cli, cross-platform
- tags: console-color, terminal-output, ansi-colors, abandoned, command-line

## Member repositories
- JakubOnderka/PHP-Console-Color (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:36.039993+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 2026-08-29T17:48:10.752893+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/JakubOnderka/PHP-Console-Color (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:36.039993+00:00, sha ec3e41937b53)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.