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Description: Spectre.Console is a .NET Standard 2.0 library that makes it easier to create beautiful console applications.
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Spectre.Console is a `.NET Standard 2.0` library that makes it easier 
to create beautiful console applications. 

## Spectre.Console.AnsiConsole Features

* Easily output text with different colors and even styles such as bold, italic and blinking with a Rich inspired [markup language](markup).
* Supports `3`/`4`/`8`/`24`-bit colors in the terminal with auto-detection of the current terminal's capabilities.
* Render complex [widgets](widgets) such as [tables](widgets/table), [trees](widgets/tree), and even [ASCII images](widgets/canvas-image).
* Display progress for long running tasks with live displays of [progress](live/progress) and [status](live/status) controls.
* Prompt user input with strongly typed [text input](prompts/text) or via [single-item select](prompts/selection) and [multiple item select](prompts/multiselection) controls.
* Format .NET [exceptions](exceptions) with custom color coded themes and styles.
* Written with unit testing in mind.

Spectre.Console.AnsiConsole  has been heavily inspired 
by the excellent [Rich](https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich) library 
for Python written by Will McGugan.

## Spectre.Console.Cli

* Create strongly typed settings and commands for parsing `args[]` to create complex command line applications like `git`, `gh`, or `dotnet`

## Examples

![Sample of Spectre.Console output](./assets/images/example.png)

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