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Ascii Ansi Colorizer

  • 12 installs
  • Updated July 29, 2026
  • full-statck-skills/ascii-skills

Adds an ANSI color layer (gradient, rainbow, highlights) to existing ASCII or plain-text output with alignment-safe rules and a no-color fallback.

About

Colorizes existing terminal text with ANSI 16/256/truecolor palettes while preserving alignment by not coloring spaces. A developer uses it to add color to already-generated ASCII art or CLI output, always emitting a plain-text fallback.

  • Alignment-safe: colorizes visible characters only
  • Requires both coloredText and plainTextFallback outputs

Ascii Ansi Colorizer by the numbers

  • 12 all-time installs (skills.sh)
  • Ranked #383 of 550 CLI & Terminal skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
  • Data as of Jul 30, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
npx skills add https://github.com/full-statck-skills/ascii-skills --skill ascii-ansi-colorizer

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Last updatedJuly 29, 2026
Repositoryfull-statck-skills/ascii-skills

What it does

Adds an ANSI color layer (gradient, rainbow, highlights) to existing ASCII or plain-text output with alignment-safe rules and a no-color fallback.

Files

SKILL.mdMarkdownGitHub ↗

When to use this skill

CRITICAL TRIGGER RULE

  • Use this skill ONLY when the user explicitly mentions the exact skill name: ascii-ansi-colorizer.

Trigger phrases include:

  • "ascii-ansi-colorizer"
  • "use ascii-ansi-colorizer"
  • "用 ascii-ansi-colorizer 给 ASCII 上色"
  • "使用 ascii-ansi-colorizer 做 ANSI 渐变/彩虹"

Boundary

  • This skill only adds color to existing text. It does not generate the ASCII art itself (pair with ascii-cli-logo-banner if needed).
  • Required outputs: coloredText + plainTextFallback.
  • ANSI must not break alignment: do not colorize spaces by default; colorize visible characters only.

How to use this skill

Inputs

  • textOrAscii (required)
  • palette (rainbow | gradient | brandColors)
  • direction (leftToRight | topToBottom, default leftToRight)
  • colorDepth (ansi16 | ansi256 | truecolor, default ansi256)
  • scope (logoOnly | highlightsOnly | fullText, default logoOnly)

Outputs (required)

  • coloredText: ANSI-colored output
  • plainTextFallback: no-color fallback (identical content, no ANSI)
  • compatNotes: copy/paste and redirection guidance (NO_COLOR / --no-color suggestions)

Steps

1. Pick colorDepth (default: ansi256). 2. Choose a stable coloring strategy:

  • Column-wise gradients (leftToRight) are usually the safest
  • Colorize non-space characters only

3. Output both coloredText and plainTextFallback. 4. Provide no-color guidance (semantic suggestions): NO_COLOR / --no-color.

Script

  • scripts/colorize.py: apply ANSI 256 gradient or rainbow to stdin

Examples

  • examples/gradient.md

Quality checklist

1. Removing ANSI keeps the same readable content (plainTextFallback). 2. Alignment does not change after coloring. 3. Colors should not overpower the informational lines.

Keywords

English: ascii-ansi-colorizer, ansi, color, gradient, rainbow, terminal, no-color, plain text, ascii 中文: ascii-ansi-colorizer, ANSI, 上色, 渐变, 彩虹, 终端, 无色回退, 纯文本, ASCII

常见陷阱 (Gotchas)

1. 版本兼容性:注意框架版本与依赖库的兼容性,不同版本 API 可能有差异 2. 配置文件格式:配置文件格式错误是最常见的问题,建议使用编辑器的语法检查 3. 环境变量:确保所有必要的环境变量已正确设置,敏感信息不要硬编码 4. 依赖冲突:多版本共存时注意依赖冲突,使用 lock 文件锁定版本 5. 性能陷阱:大数据量场景下注意性能优化,避免 N+1 查询等常见问题

使用流程

Step 1: 环境准备

确保开发环境已安装必要的依赖和工具。

Step 2: 配置初始化

根据项目需求进行基础配置。

Step 3: 核心功能使用

按照示例代码实现核心功能。

Step 4: 测试验证

运行测试确保功能正常。

Step 5: 部署上线

完成开发后进行部署和监控。

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