Colored by colored-rs

(Rust) Coloring terminal so simple you already know how to do it !

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Verdict 65/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 2/5 setup difficulty Last release 4 months ago

Self-host Colored on hetzner CAX11 for $4.13/mo.

Health score
65 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
2 /5
Docker + read README
GitHub stars
2.0k
95 forks

About Colored

From the project's README at github.com/colored-rs/colored. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.

[](https://crates.io/crates/colored) [](https://github.com/mackwic/colored/blob/master/LICENSE)

```rust "this is blue".blue(); "this is red".red(); "this is red on blue".red().onblue(); "this is also red on blue".onblue().red(); "you can use truecolor values too!".truecolor(0, 255, 136); "background truecolor also works :)".ontruecolor(135, 28, 167); "truecolor from tuple".customcolor((0, 255, 136)); "background truecolor from tuple".oncustomcolor((0, 255, 136)); "bright colors are welcome as well".onbrightblue().brightred(); "you can also make bold text".bold(); println!("{} {} {}", "or use".cyan(), "any".italic().yellow(), "string type".cyan()); "or change advice. This is red".yellow().blue().red(); "or clear things up. This is default color and style".red().bold().clear(); "purple and magenta are the same".purple().magenta(); "and so are normal and clear".normal().clear(); "you can specify color by string".color("blue").oncolor("red"); "you can also use hex colors".color("#0057B7").on_color("#fd0"); String::from("this also works!").green().bold(); format!("{:30}", "format works as expected. This will be padded".blue()); format!("{:.3}", "and this will be green but truncat

Health score breakdown

6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.

activity
80
maturity
82
community
79
security
70
sustainability
53
adoption
27

Adoption signals

Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.

SignalValueSource
GitHub stars 2.0k github.com/colored-rs/colored
GitHub forks 95 github.com/colored-rs/colored
CRATES downloads (last month) 35528k colored

Release & maintenance

Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.

Project age10.2 yearssince Mar 2016
Last commit4 months agoJan 16, 2026
Releases shipped11last: 4 months ago

Self-hosting cost across providers

Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.

ProviderPlanSpecsMonthly
hetzner CAX11 2c · 4GB · 40GB $4.13 USD Deploy →
vultr VC2 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5 USD Deploy →
linode Nanode 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5.12 USD Deploy →
digitalocean Basic Regular 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $6 USD Deploy →

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