Enable Colors on Mac Terminal

[joshzeldin]

I'm struggling to get colors working on Mac OS (Catalina) when running through Terminal. I can get other CLIs with colors to display (e.g. ls, git, etc.), but colors coming from the colored package don't show up.

If I run the same thing through VS Code's terminal, the colors do show up.

Are you aware of any settings I need play with to get this working or limitations of the default terminal? I have tried these with no luck:

• CLICOLOR
• CLICOLOR_FORCE
• NO_COLOR

I'm using the following:

[dependencies]
colored = "2.0.0"

Thanks and I'm really enjoying the crate!

[Dot32IsCool]

Also running MacOS Catalina, is working smoothly for me in terminal. Is it possible that your terminal profile has the ANSI colour setting turned off?

[grtcdr]

Same issue on Windows, any luck so far?

[joshzeldin]

@Dot32IsCool ANSI color is enabled under preferences. Thanks for the tip though.
@grtcdr Unfortunately no luck.

[grtcdr]

Thanks for the update @joshzeldin

[mackwic]

Hi everyone,

Using this stackoverflow answer, I want what does the following script print ?

curl -s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/HaleTom/89ffe32783f89f403bba96bd7bcd1263/raw/ | bash

[usefulmove]

For me, the "s".truecolor() methods do not work as expected on macOS Terminal, but the color-specific methods (e.g., "s".green()) work perfectly. As has been mentioned, in the VSCode terminal, everything works across the board as far as I can tell.

[swpease]

I seem to be in the same situation as usefulmove.

Here is the output for that colors script:

And here is a demonstration of this crate's output for my terminal:

Code for the above:

use colored::*;

fn main() {
    println!("{}", "black".black());
    println!("{}", "bright_black".bright_black());
    println!("{}", "red".red());
    println!("{}", "bright_red".bright_red());
    println!("{}", "green".green());
    println!("{}", "bright_green".bright_green());
    println!("{}", "yellow".yellow());
    println!("{}", "bright_yellow".bright_yellow());
    println!("{}", "truecolor_247,246,28".truecolor(247, 246, 28));
    println!("{}", "blue".blue());
    println!("{}", "bright_blue".bright_blue());
    println!("{}", "magenta".magenta());
    println!("{}", "bright_magenta".bright_magenta());
    println!("{}", "truecolor_255,76,255".truecolor(255, 76, 255));
    println!("{}", "purple".purple());
    println!("{}", "bright_purple".bright_purple());
    println!("{}", "cyan".cyan());
    println!("{}", "bright_cyan".bright_cyan());
    println!("{}", "white".white());
    println!("{}", "bright_white".bright_white());
    println!("{}", "truecolor_255,255,255".truecolor(255, 255, 255));
}

It looks like the 38;2;r;g;b syntax doesn't work for Terminal because it uses xterm-256color, i.e. it doesn't support truecolor. For reference, this script appears to work.