tint.zigColor and Styling Library for Zig

A comprehensive, explicit color and text styling library for Zig 0.16.0+. Supports ANSI, bright ANSI, 256-color, RGB, HEX, HSL, HSV, CMYK, LAB, XYZ, palettes, themes, and composable styles.

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Complete Color Support

ANSI 4-bit, bright ANSI, 256-color, RGB/TrueColor, HEX, HSL, HSV, CMYK, CIE XYZ, CIE Lab, and 140+ CSS/X11 named colors.

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Explicit Styling

Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, overline, fraktur, frame, encircle, rapid blink, super/subscript. Individual reset codes for fine-grained control.

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Composable Themes

16 built-in themes (dark, light, dracula, nord, monokai, tokyo_night, gruvbox, solarized, rose_pine, catppuccin, github, one_dark, material, palenight, everforest, kanagawa, cyberdream). Create custom themes with Theme.init().

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Color Conversion

Convert between RGB, HEX, ANSI 256, HSL, HSV, CMYK, CIE XYZ, and CIE Lab. Color distance, contrast ratio, and nearest ANSI 256 approximation.

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Color Manipulation

Lighten, darken, saturate, desaturate, invert, grayscale, mix, rotate, adjust hue. Color harmony: complementary, analogous, triadic, split-complementary, tetradic.

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Color Palettes

ANSI 16, ANSI 256, RGB6 cube, grayscale ramp, color ramps, color wheel, warm/cool/earth/pastel/neon palette subsets.

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Zero Dependencies

Pure Zig with no external dependencies. Minimal overhead, compile-time constants, efficient runtime construction. Cross-platform: Windows, Linux, macOS.

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Client-Owned Output

The library constructs ANSI codes and returns them. Your application owns all output and I/O. Never prints to stdout/stderr.