colortest-256(1)

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this version · 3 versions
, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

colortest-256 💖 (that's a User Commands page btw, section 1, bestie 🫶)

okay so. bestie. sit DOWN. you know how your terminal can do, like, a lot of colors and you've been living in fear of it? yeah. this is the page for you. it's colortest-256, and it does exactly one thing and it does it flawlessly. main character energy, zero notes. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

colortest-256 — Display ASCII color test graph 🌈

that's it. that's the whole job. it shows you a graph. in ASCII. of colors. iconic behavior honestly.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

  colortes-256
⚠️ okay so real talk: yes, the synopsis says colortes-256, not colortest-256. that's a whole missing t. i'm not fixing it, i'm not touching it, that's what the page says and i am simply the messenger 🫡. if you're out here typing the synopsis verbatim, godspeed. (the actual page title up top is colortest-256 and it stays that way. we don't make the rules.)

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so what it does is it displays the color palette using 256 colors. two hundred and fifty-six. that's a LOT of colors. your terminal has been holding out on you this whole time and this lil program is the vibe check that exposes everything. run it, look at the pretty squares, feel something. 🌸

it's literally that. no config, no setup, no "have you tried reading the docs" moment. it's giving "just look at it." ✨

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • None. — zero. nada. no flags, no -h, no --help, no secret extra args. the swag is unconditional. run it and it goes. periodt. 💖

✨ ENVIRONMENT ✨

  • None. — it doesn't care about your environment variables. it's not reading $TERM, it's not checking your config, it's not doing any of that. unbothered. unproblematic. 🦋

✨ FILES ✨

  • None. — doesn't write files, doesn't read files, doesn't touch your dotfiles, doesn't leave a lil mess behind. lowkey the most respectful program on your whole system. 👑

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

the rest of the color-testing cinematic universe, bestie:

✨ AUTHORS ✨

credit where credit is due, because we do NOT steal the shine around here:

the program itself was written by Thomas E. Dickey dickey@his.com, Steve Wall and Todd Larason. legends. absolute legends. 🫶

and this manual page? written by Jari Aalto jari.aalto@cante.net, for the Debian GNU system (but it may be used by others — sharing is caring, bestie 💜). released under license GNU GPL version 3 or (at your option) any later version. if you want the whole legal lore, more info about the license lives at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html. iykyk. 📜

and that's the whole page!! this was colortest-256, from the 2021-03-06 era, no cap. go run it and go look at 256 colors like the icon you are. bye bestie 💖✨🎀🦋🌸

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