CLI Colorful Help

Colors are great!

I love when command-line programs use colors in their output.

Colored output is more readable, makes important details pop, and simply looks nicer.

I spend a lot of time in the terminal and appreciate such modern UX improvements.

I wish more tools would color their --help output.

Let’s share some examples.

Examples

biome

bun

cargo

dog

freeze

just

ruff

uv

urlencode

taplo

typos

statix

How were screenshots generated?

I used freeze command.

freeze --theme monokai --execute "$program --help" --font.size 4 --padding 1 -o $program.png

I optimized PNG sizes using oxipng.