Coloured

Pretty colours in your terminal. This is a node.js port of defunkt's colored.

Colour.extendString()
console.log( "this is red".red() )
console.log( "this is red with a blue background (read: ugly)".red_on_blue() )
console.log( "this is red with an underline".red().underline() )
console.log( "this is really bold and really blue".bold().blue() )

For more examples see example/example.js.

Colours & Extras

As a convenience all colours and extras are available as methods on strings. Colours may be specified alone (e.g. red), or they may be specified with a background like so foreground_on_background (e.g. black_on_cyan).

• black
• red
• green
• yellow
• blue
• magenta
• cyan
• white

Extras are used the same as colours.

• clear
• bold
• underline
• reverse

Installation

With npm: npm install coloured

With git: git clone git://github.com/gf3/coloured.git

API

When require'd this module returns a Colour object with the following methods and properties.

Methods

Colour.extendString( nativeProto ) → Undefined

• native - Prototype to extend. Default: String.prototype.

Colour.colourise( string, options ) → String

• string - String to be coloured. Required.
• options - Object with any of the following properties: foreground, background, extra. Default: {}.

Colour.colour( name, background ) → String

• name - Colour name (e.g. "red"). Required.
• background - Set to true if background colour is desired. Default: false.

Colour.extra( name) → String

• name - Extra name (e.g. "bold"). Required.

Properties

Colour.colours → Object Object containing colour names and values.

Colour.extras → Object Object containing extra names and values.

Author

Written by Gianni "gf3" Chiappetta – gf3.ca

License

Coloured is UNLICENSED.