colortest-8(1)

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

💖 colortest-8 — the little manual page that could 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to colortest-8(1) — that's the manual page name, section 1, User Commands energy, and it's genuinely the most low-stakes iconic thing in your terminal. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

colortest-8 — Display ASCII color test graph 🌈

that's it. that's the whole job. it shows you a color test graph, in ASCII, with 8 colors. slay.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

  colortes-8
okay yes, we see it too 💀 — that's colortes-8 with the t missing, and no cap, that is exactly how it's written in the original page. do not come for me. copy it character for character, typos and all, because the rule is the rule and the rule is keeping every single detail. iykyk 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Display color palette using 8 colors.

like... that's the vibe check and it passed. you run it, you get a palette, and the palette is made of 8 colors. eight. not sixteen, not 256 — we have whole separate programs for those, and we'll get to them in SEE ALSO. this one is the small, cozy, eight-color main character. 💅

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • None.

literally none. zero. the options list is an empty plate and she ate anyway. there is nothing to pass, nothing to configure, nothing to remember. you just run it. periodt ✨

🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

  • None.

no environment variables. nothing to export, nothing to source, no $TERM-adjacent chaos to worry about. your shell env is safe with her 💜

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • None.

no config files. no dotfiles. no ~/.colortestrc that you'd have to google. nothing lives on your disk because of this. immaculate, honestly 😭

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

the squad!! 🫶 when 8 colors isn't enough (and honestly, sometimes it isn't), go hang out with the 16-color one, the 16-color b variant, and the big 256-color one. same family, more pixels of personality.

💖 AUTHORS 💖

Program was written by Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@his.com> — legend behavior, we love to see it 👑

This manual page was written by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>, for the Debian GNU system (but may be used by others). Released under license GNU GPL version 3 or (at your option) any later version. For more information about license, visit <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>.

shoutout to both of them fr fr, this page exists because of them and we're just here making it cute 💐

and that's the whole page!! no options, no env vars, no files, just 8 colors and a dream. honestly iconic. go run it and enjoy the little rainbow 🌈✨

this was colortest-8 (the source/version string is colortest-8, dated 2021-03-06) — bye bestie, drink some water, check your $TERM, mwah 💅💖🎀

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