ANSI colors for your Erlang

1> io:format("Hello, this is the ~s color~n", [ color:red("red") ]).

1> io:format("Hello, this is on ~s~n", [ color:on_blue("blue blackground") ]).

Make sure you use the ~s string type, ~p will escape the ANSI code.

1> io:format("Hello, this color is ~s~n", [ color:rgb([0,1,0], "green") ]).

Note: as of this writing, 24-bit colors (ISO-8613-3) are not widely adopted in terminal emulators. Konsole and iTerm2 nighly builds are known to support them.

1> io:format("The solarized template is ~s ~s ~s ~s ~s ~s ~s ~s ~s ~s ~s ~s ~s ~s ~s ~s ~n", [
  color:true("002B36", "base03"), color:true("073642", "base02"), color:true("586E75", "base01"),
  color:true("657B83", "base00"), color:true("839496", "base0"),  color:true("93A1A1", "base1"),
  color:true("EEE8D5", "base2"),  color:true("FDF6E3", "base3"),  color:true("B58900", "yellow"),
  color:true("CB4B16", "orange"), color:true("DC322F", "red"),    color:true("D33682", "magenta"),
  color:true("6C71C4", "violet"), color:true("268BD2", "blue"),   color:true("2AA198", "cyan"),
  color:true("859900", "green")]).

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