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

Sample of Spectre.Console output