terminal-colorsaurus 🦕

A cross-platform library for determining the terminal's background and foreground color.
It answers the question «Is this terminal dark or light?».

Works in all major terminals including Windows Terminal (starting with v1.22).

Example

use terminal_colorsaurus::{color_scheme, QueryOptions, ColorScheme};

match color_scheme(QueryOptions::default()).unwrap() {
    ColorScheme::Dark => { /* ... */ },
    ColorScheme::Light => { /* ... */ },
}

Docs

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.
• This comment in the Terminal WG for the DA1 trick to easily detect terminals that don't support querying the colors with OSC 10 / OSC 11.

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.