tinycolor

A tiny but mighty Rust utility crate for printing colored strings in the terminal

Why tinycolor?

tinycolor is designed for Rust terminal/CLI programs where binary size and compile times matter It does one thing and does it well: adding ANSI colors to your terminal output

Comparisons

tinycolor fits in just under 900 lines and the entire crate can stay in one single lib.rs!

See tinycolor in action

Add this in your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
tinycolor = "1"

or run:

cargo add tinycolor

And add this in your lib.rs or main.rs:

use tinycolor::Colorize;

fn main() {
    println!("{}{} {}{}",
        "Hello".green().bold(),
        ",".on_cyan().italic(),
        "world".rgb(207, 177, 150).dim(),
        "!".on_red().blink()
    );
}

Features

• Zero dependencies by default - keeps your build lean
• Simple API - just import and use
• Serde support - enable with features = ["serde"]
• Extended colors - enable with features = ["color-ext"] for additional effects

Why you might want alternatives

• Need cursor movement or terminal events? Use crossterm
• Need logging integration? Use colored or termcolor
• Need to support Windows 7? Test with tinycolor first (ANSI support varies)

But if you just want to print pretty colors with minimal overhead, tinycolor is for you!