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24 alternatives to *nixy filter to color stdout, by rows or space-separated columns

*nixy filter that adds color to its standard input by rows or columns - lonetwin/colorize

Nixy is a Unix command-line tool that colors standard output either by rows or by space-separated columns. It lets users visually organize terminal text through color coding applied at different structural levels. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. *nixy filter to color stdout, by rows or space-separated columns launched in 2017; 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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    Hi HN community, I’m Zach, founder and CEO of Warp, and am excited to show you Warp, a fast Rust-based terminal that’s easy to use and built for teams. As of today, Warp is in public beta and any Mac user can download it. It works with bash, zsh, and fish. The terminal’s teletype-like interface has made it hard for the CLI to thrive. After 20 years of programming, I still find it hard to copy a command’s output; I always forget how to use `tar`; and I always have to relearn how to move my cursor. To fix fundamental accessibility issues, I believe we need to start innovating on the terminal,…

    2022 · warp.dev · its alternatives →

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    Grep with colours. Contribute to arsham/blush development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · 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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    Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. - Textualize/rich

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello! This is Edgar and Robbie and we built nix-snapshotter. nix-snapshotter brings native understanding of Nix packages to containerd. We built this because Nix is a great fit for making efficient containers. They don't need an OS because Nix captures all dependencies exactly. However, the current process of creating Nix images is subpar because one needs to transform Nix packages into a format that container runtimes understand. Using nix-snapshotter, instead of downloading image layers, packages come directly from the Nix store. Packages can be fetched from a binary cache or built on the…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Whereas this is mostly a terminal eye-candy project to get you street cred, it does have some serious aspects. Firstly it solves the age-old problem of low-contrast text, like when you `ls` a broken symlink and the red background colour is too near your current theme's foreground colour. Tattoy solves this by using none other than the web's WCAG 2.1 contrast algorithm for accessible text. Secondly, an explicit design goal is that Tattoy should be able to polyfill new terminal protocols, the `xwayland` of the TTY if you will. Say if we want to experiment with completely deprecating ANSI…

    2025 · tattoy.sh · its alternatives →

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    CPU rendered ASCII art shader writing tool with hot reloading. - danthedaniel/js-shaders

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Colour your text / terminal to be more gay. 🏳️‍🌈. Contribute to ms-jpq/gay development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · 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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    .colors()▲115

    🎨 A color picker for people who live in their text editor

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Print your name in style. Contribute to arsham/figurine development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A chrome extension to pick, save & create colors/gradients

    2018 · chromewebstore.google.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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    Turns any word or phrase into a hex color

    2016 · alexbeals.com · its alternatives →

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    Paint and color matching made simple

    2017 · nixsensor.com · its alternatives →

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    A human-friendly and fast alternative to cut (and sometimes awk) - theryangeary/choose

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Freeze▲118

    Generate images of code and terminal output

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Nixmac▲139

    Nix-darwin that speaks plain English

    Jul 2026 · nixmac.com · its alternatives →

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    GNUplot with sixel support. Contribute to csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Terminal string styling for Swift

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    displaying colors using the kitty graphics protocol - written in zig - NishantJoshi00/color-show

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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