rich_console

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rich_console is a Flutter/Dart package that enhances console output by enabling colored text and styling in terminal-based applications. It allows developers to add visual clarity to debugging messages, logs, and runtime feedback through customizable colors, fonts, and formatting. Ideal for command-line tools, debuggers, or analysis utilities, it improves readability and user experience across multiple platforms. The package integrates seamlessly with Flutter projects and supports all major platforms including Android, iOS, Web, macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Use cases

Debugging CLI tools
Enhancing log readability
Interactive console applications
Real-time feedback systems
Testing and development workflows
Visualizing data in terminal

Key features

Colorful console output
Text styling (bold, italic, underline)
Cross-platform compatibility
Simple API integration
Customizable themes
Terminal-friendly formatting

Suitable for

Developers building CLI apps
Teams improving debug visibility
Educational or tutorial tools
Data visualization in terminals
Logging enhancement in dev environments

Considerations

Limited to console output only
May not work in all terminal emulators
No support for non-terminal environments
Depends on platform-specific ANSI escape codes
Not intended for UI rendering
Requires manual theme configuration

Original README

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A natural way of printing text styles and colors in flutter/dart.

This packages contains a set of configurations that make it easy to differentiate console outputs and print all sort of colors. It's multi-IDE compatible as it is based on the basic ANSI escape codes. Note that there might be parameters and features that your IDE doesn't support. You will notice this simply that no effect is applied to you text.

Features

Usage

import 'package:rich_console/rich_console.dart';

void main(){
  
  // * Reusable styles
  final yourReusableStyle = RichStyle(italic: true, foreground: Colors.pinkAccent);
  printRich("Your Text", style: yourReusableStyle);
  printRich("Another Text", style: yourReusableStyle.copyWith(framed: true));
  
  // * Simple prints
  printRich("Background", background: Colors.green);
  printRich("Foreground", foreground: Colors.blue);
  printRich("Italic", italic: true);
  printRich("Bold", bold: true);
  printRich("Underline", underline: true);
  printRich("Invert",
      foreground: Colors.blue, background: Colors.green, invert: true);
  printRich("Strike", strike: true);
  printRich("DoubleUnderline", doubleUnderline: true);
  printRich("Framed", framed: true);
  printRich("Encircled", encircled: true);
}

Additional Information

Functions

printRich()
printError()
printWarning()

Settable Parameters

Foreground
Background
Bold
Italic
Bold
Underline
SlowBlink
RapidBlink
Invert
Conceal
Strike
Gothic
DoubleUnderline
Framed
Encircled
Overlined
UnderlineColor

Contributions

Please feel welcome add anything that is missing. Simply create a pull request. Especially, ff you are familiar with obtaining text input from the console please make sure to add such features to this package.

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