colorful
v0.3.2 GrowingMake your terminal output colorful
Quick Verdict
- ✕Not updated for 1+ year
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Trusted by 933 crates
- ✓Tiny footprint (22KB, 0 deps)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT)
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Deep Insights
40.6K downloads in the last 30 days (1.4K/day), up 20% from the previous period.
933 crates depend on colorful. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.
Despite being 7+ years old, colorful hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
colorful has no external dependencies — minimal supply chain risk and fast compile times.
At 21KB, colorful is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include ascii_table, rendy-memory, pg-trunk, gnostr, gnostr-bins. When high-quality crates choose colorful, it's a strong quality signal.
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