Mordant is a multiplatform library for rendering styled text in the terminal. You can use it to add color and style to text, create tables, draw animations, and more.

Mordant has:

• Easy colorful ANSI output with automatic detection of terminal capabilities
• Markdown rendering directly to the terminal
• Widgets for laying out terminal output, including lists, tables, panels, and more
• Support for animating any widget, like progress bars and dashboards

Documentation

The full documentation can be found on the website.

Installation

Mordant is distributed through Maven Central.

dependencies {
    implementation("com.github.ajalt.mordant:mordant:3.0.1")

    // optional extensions for running animations with coroutines
    implementation("com.github.ajalt.mordant:mordant-coroutines:3.0.1")

    // optional widget for rendering Markdown
    implementation("com.github.ajalt.mordant:mordant-markdown:3.0.1")
}

On JVM, there are more granular dependencies available. See the docs for details.

If you're using Maven instead of Gradle, use <artifactId>mordant-jvm</artifactId>

Snapshots

Snapshot builds are also available

You'll need to add the Sonatype snapshots repository:

repositories {
    maven {
        url = uri("https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/")
    }
}

License

Copyright 2018 AJ Alt

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.