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Provides for easier use of 256 colors and effects.

To learn more about text formatting, read That 256 Color Thing.

Variables

BG provides background colors.
FG provides foreground colors.
FX provides effects.

Background and Foreground

Terminals support 8, 16, 88, and 256 colors. Check if a terminal supports 256 colors with tput colors before use.

The following colors are supported.

0 to 255
black
red
green
yellow
blue
magenta
cyan
white

Effects

Though there are many effects, most terminals support at least bold formatting.

Not all effects work on all terminals; use them sparingly.

Enable	Disable
	none
	normal
bold	no-bold
faint	no-faint
standout	no-standout
underline	no-underline
blink	no-blink
fast-blink	no-fast-blink
reverse	no-reverse
conceal	no-conceal
strikethrough	no-strikethrough
gothic	no-gothic
double-underline	no-double-underline
proportional	no-proportional
overline	no-overline

	no-border
border-rectangle	no-border-rectangle
border-circle	no-border-circle

	no-ideogram-marking
underline-or-right	no-underline-or-right
double-underline-or-right	no-double-underline-or-right
overline-or-left	no-overline-or-left
double-overline-or-left	no-double-overline-or-left
stress	no-stress

	font-default
font-first	no-font-first
font-second	no-font-second
font-third	no-font-third
font-fourth	no-font-fourth
font-fifth	no-font-fifth
font-sixth	no-font-sixth
font-seventh	no-font-seventh
font-eigth	no-font-eigth
font-ninth	no-font-ninth

Plain Text

Use $BG[none], $FG[none], or $FX[none] to turn off formatting.

Authors

The authors of this module should be contacted via the issue tracker.