Fabulous: Print images in terminal with Python
Fabulous: Print images in terminal with Python launched on July 5, 2016 with 19 votes, #1,530 of 3,671 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
In plain words
Fabulous is a Python library and command line tool that enables developers to display colors, images, and stylized text in terminal applications without requiring the curses library. It enhances console output with visual elements and provides improved logging features for Python's standard logging system. The tool is designed to make terminal application output more visually appealing and functional.
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From the sources
Fabulous is a Python library (and command line tools) designed to make the output of terminal applications look fabulous . Fabulous allows you to print colors, images, and stylized text to the console (without curses.) Fabulous also offers features to improve the usability of Python’s standard logging system. The following prerequisites should be installed, but they are not mandatory. They help Fabulous run faster and make the full feature set available: 4-bit colors and styles are standard and work almost everywhere. They are useful in helping make your program output easier to read: 8-bit color works in most modern terminals, such as gnome-terminal and Terminal.app: Fabulous lets…from jart.github.io
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