README.md

# colours

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A Gleam library for adding colours in terminal outputs.

Very important for building beautiful test suites or ncurses terminal apps.

> Note: Colours working on Gleam 0.15.0 latest main branch 

## Quick start

Colours is easy to use. 

Just use any colour you want as a function. For foreground colour add `fg` and for background color add `bg` 

in front of any colour you want to use from color image.

for example:

```colours.fgmaroon("Maroon")```
 
 will print Maroon in Maroon colour.

```colours.bgmaroon("Maroon")```
 
 will print Maroon with Maroon background.

![256](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22755228/66672471-04555a80-ec67-11e9-8c20-aa5d159bc320.png)

Colours supports this text effects:

 - **Bold** (`colours.bold()`) 
 - <ins>Underline</ins> (`colours.underline()`)
 - *Italic* (`colours.italic()`)
 - ~~Strikethrough~~ (`colours.strikethrough()`)
 
Colours also supports RGB colors for both background and foreground:

``` colours.fg_rgb("Red Foreground", 255, 0, 0)```
 
 will print Red Foreground in Red colour.

`colours.bg_rgb("Red Background", 255, 0, 0)`
 
 will print Red Background with Red background.

 > Note: RGB colors support only Natural numbers 

## Installation

Colours can be installed by typing:

`gleam add colours`

inside your project directory.

## Documentation 

You can visit a hexdocs documentation generated by gleam [here](https://hexdocs.pm/colours/).