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 “lolcat” (CLI text colourizer) launched on July 1, 2020 with 33 votes, #863 of 4,305 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.
In plain words
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 more readable and visually distinct. The tool functions as a text colorizer similar to traditional lolcat utilities, offering an alternative approach for those working in Unix-like environments who want enhanced visual formatting in their command-line workflows.
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