PWRSWriteColorEX

1.2.1

Colored and styled console output for PowerShell: TrueColor, ANSI 256 and 16 colors, gradients, markup, highlighting, links, text styles, style profiles, padding and wrapping that count wide characters, and logging to a file. The commands, parameters, aliases and output of PSWriteColorEX (https://github.com/MarkusMcNugen/PSWriteColorEX), so a script written for it run
Colored and styled console output for PowerShell: TrueColor, ANSI 256 and 16 colors, gradients, markup, highlighting, links, text styles, style profiles, padding and wrapping that count wide characters, and logging to a file. The commands, parameters, aliases and output of PSWriteColorEX (https://github.com/MarkusMcNugen/PSWriteColorEX), so a script written for it runs unchanged. Bound directly to Rust with PoWerRuSt (pwrs), Rust bindings for writing PowerShell binary modules in the spirit of PyO3: the cmdlets are the library, not a wrapper over a command line. Windows x64 and arm64, Linux x64 and arm64 (glibc 2.35 and newer), macOS arm64 and x64, and FreeBSD x64 in one module, on PowerShell 7.4 or later and, on Windows, Windows PowerShell 5.1. Source and issues at https://github.com/Variably-Constant/PWRSWriteColorEX; the binding framework at https://github.com/Variably-Constant/PWRS and https://crates.io/crates/PoWerRuSt.
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Minimum PowerShell version

5.1

Installation Options

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Install-Module -Name PWRSWriteColorEX

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Install-PSResource -Name PWRSWriteColorEX

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Owners

Copyright

(c) 2026 Mark Newton

Package Details

Author(s)

  • Mark Newton

Tags

pwrs powershell color ansi truecolor console cmdlet

Cmdlets

Write-ColorEX Write-ColorError Write-ColorWarning Write-ColorInfo Write-ColorSuccess Write-ColorCritical Write-ColorDebug Set-ColorDefault Get-ColorProfiles New-ColorStyle Test-AnsiSupport Convert-HexToRGB Convert-RGBToANSI8 Convert-RGBToANSI4 Get-ColorTableWithRGB Measure-DisplayWidth Get-LighterRGBColor Get-LighterColorName Get-LighterANSI8Color Format-ColorEX Show-ColorTable Register-ColorName Unregister-ColorName Export-ColorProfile Import-ColorProfile Remove-ColorProfile Get-GradientColor Get-ColorContrast

PSEditions

Desktop Core

Dependencies

This module has no dependencies.

Release Notes

The commands, parameters and output of PSWriteColorEX 1.2.1: twenty-one named gradients; gradients in eight color spaces with hue paths, placed stops, easing, bands, repeats and directions, and Get-GradientColor; -ColorSupport on Write-ColorEX and Format-ColorEX, in place of the color detection; Test-AnsiSupport's SupportsUnicode, with WRITECOLOREX_UNICODE to set it; Get-ColorContrast; Import-ColorProfile -Theme with twelve color themes, PowerShell's own colors and the CSS color names; Show-ColorTable -Styles, -Palette and -Profiles; the about_PWRSWriteColorEX cheat sheet; 256 colors written as the code that looks nearest; every gradient stop drawn; -Style refusing what PSWriteColorEX refuses; and an import keeping the style profiles added since, as PSWriteColorEX's does. Each write to the host goes through PWRS's Pipeline::write_host, one call into .NET. The full list is in CHANGELOG.md: https://github.com/Variably-Constant/PWRSWriteColorEX/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

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Version History

Version Downloads Last updated
1.2.1 (current version) 8 10/21/2026
1.2.0 16 10/9/2026