terminal-colorsaurus 🦕

Determines the background and foreground color of the terminal using the OSC 10 and OSC 11 terminal sequence.

This is useful for answering the question "Is this terminal dark or light?".

Windows is unfortunately not supported.

Example

use terminal_colorsaurus::{color_scheme, QueryOptions};

let colors = color_scheme(QueryOptions::default()).unwrap();
dbg!(colors.is_dark_on_light());

Docs

Wishlist

These are some features that I would like to include in this crate, but have not yet had the time to implement. PRs are welcome :)

• A CLI tool version of this library.

Inspiration

This crate borrows ideas from many other projects. This list is by no means exhaustive.

• xterm-query: Use mio to wait for the terminal's response with a timeout.
• termbg: Lists a lot of terminals which served as a good starting point for me to test terminals as well.
• macOS doesn't like polling /dev/tty by Nathan Craddock
• This excellent answer on Stack Overflow for determining the perceived lightness of a color.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (license-apache.txt or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (license-mit.txt or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.