termcolor
ANSI color formatting for colored terminal output in Python CLI applications.
Used in agent projects
28
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in dev workflow and config
#66 of 88
by use in those projects
Downloads
16.8M
PyPI, last 7 days, termcolor
GitHub stars
326
last push Oct 8, 2026
How termcolor is used
termcolor is a dependency in 28 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #66 of 88 in dev workflow and config. The most used alternative there is dotenv. Projects that use it most often also use NumPy (89.3%), Requests (89.3%), Pillow (60.7%).
Often used with termcolor
| NumPy | 89.3% of termcolor projects · 23.3× more than average |
|---|---|
| Requests | 89.3% of termcolor projects · 16.8× more than average |
| Pillow | 60.7% of termcolor projects · 26.4× more than average |
| tqdm | 60.7% of termcolor projects · 54.7× more than average |
| charset-normalizer | 60.7% of termcolor projects · 48.8× more than average |
| urllib3 | 60.7% of termcolor projects · 39.9× more than average |
| pandas | 57.1% of termcolor projects · 18.9× more than average |
| solana-py | 57.1% of termcolor projects · 21.2× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list termcolor as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install termcolor |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (28) |
| Example projects | Kaggle/kaggle-environments, microsoft/edge-ai, fireblocks/fireblocks-key-recovery-tool, moondevonyt/housecoin-100x-bot, bloXroute-Labs/solana-trader-client-python |
Alternatives to termcolor
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| dotenv npm Load environment variables from .env files into process.env. |
2,001 (15.8%) | 189M | 20.5K | BSD-2-Clause |
| python-dotenv pypi Load environment variables from .env files in Python applications. |
828 (6.5%) | 156M | 8,898 | BSD-3-Clause |
| Husky npm Modern Git hooks manager for running tasks on git events. |
797 (6.3%) | 36.2M | 35.3K | MIT |
| lint-staged npm Run linters on git staged files to catch issues before commit. |
591 (4.7%) | 29.5M | 14.7K | MIT |
| concurrently npm Run multiple npm scripts concurrently for efficient development workflows. |
572 (4.5%) | 22.2M | 7,856 | MIT |
| cross-env npm Set environment variables across Windows, Mac and Linux in npm scripts. |
265 (2.1%) | 25.8M | 6,521 | MIT |
| Pydantic Settings pypi Settings management and configuration from environment variables using Pydantic. |
251 (2.0%) | 96.8M | 1,475 | — |
| Rich pypi Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in terminal output. |
243 (1.9%) | 117M | 57.5K | MIT |