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24 alternatives to A gayer “lolcat” (CLI text colourizer)
Colour your text / terminal to be more gay. 🏳️🌈. Contribute to ms-jpq/gay development by creating an account on GitHub.
A gayer is a command-line tool that adds color to text output in terminals. Designed for developers and system administrators, it processes text streams and applies customizable color schemes to make terminal output… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A gayer “lolcat” (CLI text colourizer) launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, rg --json, and blame output - dandavison/delta
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Coolors▲1,589Super fast color schemes generator for cool designers
2014 · coolors.co · its alternatives →
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A point to point color terminal video chat. Contribute to mofarrell/p2pvc development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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🎨 themer takes a set of colors and outputs themes for your apps (editors, terminals, wallpapers, and more). - mjswensen/themer
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · colorsupplyyy.com · its alternatives →
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cat for images, by RUST
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Kelir▲120Color picker, color pallete and color gradient for your Mac
2016 · scrapdenton.org · its alternatives →
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The new way of working with color
2023 · oklch.com · its alternatives →
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integrate chatGPT into your scripts or terminal work. Supports piping text, saving prompts, estimating costs, and some basic json/yaml extraction. I've added some elaborate examples on the readme of how to use it with pictures, that may provide a better overview.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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*nixy filter that adds color to its standard input by rows or columns - lonetwin/colorize
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Stark▲290The color-blind simulator and contrast checker for Sketch.
2017 · getstark.co · its alternatives →
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Pika▲291A free, open-source colour picker app for macOS
2021 · superhighfives.com · its alternatives →
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A GNU screen style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty. - coder/boo
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Rich-cli is a command line toolbox for fancy output in the terminal - Textualize/rich-cli
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Color picker & color schemes generator for macOS
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Python package + CLI to generate stylistic wordclouds, including gradients and icon shapes! - minimaxir/stylecloud
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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BetterTerminal▲184Work smarter with a custom Mac terminal
2024 · betterterminal.com · its alternatives →
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I initially built cs (codespelunker) as a way to answer the question, can BM25 relevance search work without building an index? Turns out it can, and so I iterated on the idea, building it into a full CLI tool. Recently I wanted to improve it by adding relevance of tools like Sourcegraph or Zoekt but again without adding an index. cs uses scc https://github.com/boyter/scc to understand the structure of the file on the fly. As such it can filter searches to code, comments or strings. It also applies a weighted BM25 algorithm where matches in actual code rank higher than…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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