colored 2.3.2


pip install colored

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Released: Mar 28, 2026

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Author: Dimitris Zlatanidis
Requires Python: >=3.9

Classifiers

Development Status
  • 5 - Production/Stable

Environment
  • Console

License
  • OSI Approved :: MIT License

Operating System
  • POSIX :: Other
  • POSIX :: Linux
  • Microsoft :: Windows
  • Microsoft :: Windows :: Windows 10
  • OS Independent

Programming Language
  • Python :: 3

Typing
  • Typed

Topic
  • Terminals

Latest Release pipeline status coverage report Python Code style: flake8 Type checked: mypy Linting: pylint License: MIT

About

Colored, it's a simple Python library for color and formatting in terminal. Collection of color codes and names for 256 color terminal setups. Colored now supports RGB color mode. As "true color" graphic cards with 16 to 24 bits of color became common, applications began to support 24-bit colors. Terminal emulators supporting setting 24-bit foreground and background colors with escape sequences include Xterm, KDE's Konsole, and iTerm, as well as all libvte based terminals, including GNOME Terminal.

The colors work with most terminals and terminals emulators. ANSI/VT100 escape sequences can be used in every programming languages.

Colored is powerful and easy to use:

>>> from colored import Fore, Back, Style
>>>
>>> Fore.red
'\x1b[38;5;1m'
>>>
>>> Back.red
'\x1b[48;5;1m'
>>>
>>> Style.reset
'\x1b[0m'
>>> 
>>> Fore.rgb('100%', '50%', '30%')
'\x1b[38;2;255;130;79m'
>>>
>>> print(f'{Fore.white}{Back.green}Colored is Awesome!!!{Style.reset}')

!!! success

>>> Colored is Awesome!!!

Installing

Open up a terminal and install colored with pip command:

$ pip install colored

Alternatively, you can grab the latest source code from GitLab:

$ git clone https://gitlab.com/dslackw/colored.git
$ cd colored
$ pip install .

Usage

The User Guide is the place to go to learn how to use the library.

The API Reference documentation provides API-level documentation.

License

colored is made available under the MIT License. For more details, see here.

Contributing

!!! info We happily welcome contributions!

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Wheel compatibility matrix

Platform Python 3
any

Files in release

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