Colorize

Colorize Library for Java based on Fazibear's Colorize gem for Ruby

Description

Allows for displaying colored text and colored highlighting on a console/command-line. Tested on Windows Terminal (Powershell and Ubuntu/WSL).

Usage

Colors

Colors
RED
GREEN
YELLOW
BLUE
PURPLE
CYAN
GRAY
BRIGHT_RED
BRIGHT_GREEN
BRIGHT_YELLOW
BRIGHT_BLUE
BRIGHT_MAGENTA
BRIGHT_CYAN
RESET

Backgrounds

Backgrounds
BLACK
RED
GREEN
YELLOW
BLUE
PURPLE
CYAN
WHITE

Notes

RESET color can be used reset colors/background back to default. Though, colorize() takes care of reseting back to default after applying the styling ot the given text.

Methods

colorize(String string, COLORS color)

Color a given a String with specified color.

colorize(String string, BACKGROUNDS background)

Highlight a given String with specified background.

colorize(String string, COLORS color, BACKGROUNDS background)

Color and highlight a given String with specified color and background.

Examples

public static void main(String[] args) {
    
    // Print out a colored String
    System.out.println(Colorize.colorize("Hello World -- Colored", Colorize.COLORS.BLUE));

    // Print out a String with a colored background
    System.out.println(Colorize.colorize("Hello World -- Blue Background", Colorize.BACKGROUNDS.BLUE));

    // Print out a colored String with colored background
    System.out.println(Colorize.colorize("Hello World -- Colored String and Colored Background", Colorize.COLORS.BLUE, Colorize.BACKGROUNDS.WHITE));
}

With Lombok's Extension Method

@ExtensionMethod({Colorize.class})
public class Test {
    ...
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Print out a colored String
    System.out.println("Hello World -- Colored".colorize(Colorize.COLORS.BLUE));

    // Print out a String with a colored background
    System.out.println("Hello World -- Blue Background".colorize(Colorize.BACKGROUNDS.BLUE));

    // Print out a colored String with colored background
    System.out.println("Hello World -- Colored String and Colored Background".colorize(Colorize.COLORS.BLUE, Colorize.BACKGROUNDS.WHITE));
    }
}