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supports-color

Latest Version: v10.2.2

Lightweight utility to detect terminal color support, widely used by chalk and CLI tools (371M+ weekly downloads).

Owner: chalk

OSSauto-discoverednpmcolor

Stars

365

GitHub star count

Last Release

7 months ago

v10.2.2

Contributors

38

N/A

Health Score

N/A

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Key Features

  • Primary stack

    JavaScript (MIT)

  • Community adoption

    365 stars

Tech Stack

JavaScript
auto-discovered
npm
color
colour
colors
terminal
console
cli
ansi
styles
tty
rgb

About

Lightweight utility to detect terminal color support, widely used by chalk and CLI tools (371M+ weekly downloads).

supports-color is a open-source project built primarily with JavaScript and maintained by chalk. The project is distributed under the MIT license.

Current DevRadar signals show community adoption at 365 stars, 90 forks, 38 contributors. Freshness signals include latest version v10.2.2, last release 2025-09-08, last commit 2026-01-04. OpenSSF Scorecard is approximately 39 / 100. Current discovery action is "watch", with ongoing monitoring of maintenance and ecosystem momentum.

Analyst Note

Lightweight utility to detect terminal color support, widely used by chalk and CLI tools (371M+ weekly downloads).

Best For

  • Technical stack evaluation for engineering teams
  • Dependency governance and upgrade planning in production systems
  • Track delivery cadence and release quality from chalk
  • Primary stack

Not Ideal For

  • Security posture signals are mixed; run additional security review before broad adoption

Typical Use Cases

Technical stack evaluation for engineering teamsDependency governance and upgrade planning in production systemsTrack delivery cadence and release quality from chalk

Decision Snapshot

  • Product type: Open Source
  • Primary language: JavaScript
  • Pricing model: Free
  • License: MIT
  • Last Release: 9/8/2025
Data Basis
  • Last Sync: Mar 1, 2026, 03:02 PM
  • Metrics Updated: Mar 1, 2026, 03:02 PM
  • Completeness: 100%
  • Last Verified: Mar 1, 2026, 03:02 PM

Data Status

Stale
Last SyncMar 1, 2026, 03:02 PM
Metrics UpdatedMar 1, 2026, 03:02 PM
Completeness100%
Last VerifiedMar 1, 2026, 03:02 PM

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Broad maintainer participation.

Cons

  • -Security posture signals are mixed; run additional security review before broad adoption

All Metrics

Adoption

4/4
Stars365
Forks90
Open Issues3
Contributors38

Health

0/4
Health ScorePending
Trend ScorePending
Activity ScorePending
Reliability ScorePending

Core

3/5
Latest Versionv10.2.2
Last Release9/8/2025
Last Commit1/4/2026
StatusPending
Activity LevelPending

Security

0/1
Security ScorePending