Spectre.Console

A .NET 5/.NET Standard 2.0 library that makes it easier to create beautiful, cross platform, console applications.
It is heavily inspired by the excellent Rich library
for Python.

Table of Contents

1. Features
2. Installing
3. Documentation
4. Examples
5. Sponsors
6. License

Features

• Written with unit testing in mind.
• Supports tables, grids, panels, and a rich inspired markup language.
• Supports the most common SRG parameters when it comes to text
  styling such as bold, dim, italic, underline, strikethrough,
  and blinking text.
• Supports 3/4/8/24-bit colors in the terminal.
  The library will detect the capabilities of the current terminal
  and downgrade colors as needed.

Installing

The fastest way of getting started using Spectre.Console is to install the NuGet package.

dotnet add package Spectre.Console

Documentation

The documentation for Spectre.Console can be found at
https://spectreconsole.net/

Examples

To see Spectre.Console in action, install the
dotnet-example
global tool.

> dotnet tool restore

Now you can list available examples in this repository:

> dotnet example

And to run an example:

> dotnet example tables

Sponsors

The following people are sponsoring
Spectre.Console to show their support and to ensure the longevity of the project.

• Rodney Littles II
• Martin Björkström
• Dave Glick
• Kim Gunanrsson
• Andrew McClenaghan
• C. Augusto Proiete
• Viktor Elofsson
• Steven Knox
• David Pendray
• Elmah.io

I really appreciate it.
Thank you very much!

License

Copyright © Patrik Svensson, Phil Scott, Nils Andresen

Spectre.Console is provided as-is under the MIT license. For more information see LICENSE.

• For SixLabors.ImageSharp, see https://github.com/SixLabors/ImageSharp/blob/master/LICENSE