Welcome!

Spectre.Console is a .NET library that makes it easier to create beautiful console applications.

Spectre.Console.AnsiConsole Features

• Easily output text with different colors and even styles such as bold, italic and blinking with a Rich inspired markup language.
• Supports 3/4/8/24-bit colors in the terminal with auto-detection of the current terminal's capabilities.
• Render complex widgets such as tables, trees, and even ASCII images.
• Display progress for long running tasks with live displays of progress and status controls.
• Prompt user input with strongly typed text input or via single-item select and multiple item select controls.
• Format .NET exceptions with custom color coded themes and styles.
• Written with unit testing in mind.

Spectre.Console.AnsiConsole has been heavily inspired by the excellent Rich library for Python written by Will McGugan.

Spectre.Console.Cli

• Create strongly typed settings and commands for parsing args[] to create complex command line applications like git, gh, or dotnet

Examples