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#616 in Command line utilities

GPL-3.0-or-later

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Monoterm

Monoterm converts all terminal colors to monochrome.

A screenshot of a terminal with a line separating the image into two parts. The left side includes many colors, while the right side is entirely black and white.

Why?

I initially developed Monoterm to use with my e-ink display. Since it converts everything to grayscale, terminal colors simply make text harder to read. There may be accessibility uses for Monoterm as well.

Usage

The basic usage is monoterm <command> [args...]. Generally you would use this to invoke your shell; e.g., monoterm bash.

With the --bold option, text that was originally colored will be rendered as bold. See monoterm --help for more information and additional options.

Dependencies

~1.5MB
~36K SLoC