Supported Colors and Styles by Terminals#
Limited Support for ANSI Escape Codes#
Colorist is based on ANSI escape codes, a standard that defines colors, styling, and effects for text in terminal windows. Note that most terminals support all color options, but not all.
Overview#
Generally, the features of Colorist are supported in these categories:
| Category | Supported By | Colorist Options1 |
|---|---|---|
| Standard ANSI colors | Almost all terminals | Color, BgColor, Effect |
| Non-standard ANSI colors | Most terminals | BrightColor, BgBrightColor, ColorVGA, BgColorVGA |
| Advanced ANSI colors only | Some terminals | ColorRGB, BgColorRGB, ColorHSL, BgColorHSL, ColorHex, BgColorHex |
Refer to the terminal's documentation to see if it supports extended color palettes.
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Only custom string styling methods are mentioned in this overview. However, this similarly applies to the respective full text functions. For instance
rgb()forColorRGB,bg_rgb()forBgColorRGB, etc.. ↩