dshoreman / realworld-colourtest

Bash colour testing script with real-world examples

Real-World Colour Test

I recently switched to Alacritty so once again, I'm on the quest for a new colour scheme. Plenty of things exist already to test shell colours, but I couldn't find anything that output any decent "real world" examples... Hence this script was born.

What it Outputs

• Colour blocks for the standard 16-colour palette
• Text, info, warning and error messages, each with dim, bold and normal variants
• Dummy Weechat UI
• Two ZSH prompts using the Bullet Train theme
  • One with defaults, and one using colours from my dotfiles
• Sample Git diff output with diff-so-fancy enabled

Usage

The easiest way to use this script is to pipe it through Bash:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dshoreman/realworld-colourtest/master/colours.sh | bash

For a more permanent install, clone this repo and move colours.sh to somewhere in your $PATH:

git clone https://github.com/dshoreman/realworld-colourtest.git
sudo cp realworld-colourtest/colours.sh /usr/local/bin/colourtest

Assuming your $PATH isn't borked, you'll now be able to run colourtest from anywhere.

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