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    charmbracelet/lipgloss

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    Style definitions for nice terminal layouts πŸ‘„

    cli
    go
    golang
    hacktoberfest
    layout
    style
    Go
    MIT
    11.9K stars
    446 forks
    11.9K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 16, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    Ranks #298 of 2,845 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 10%).

    1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 66 days ago, with 49 contributors on GitHub.

    The biggest single-day gain in the last year, +29 stars on Feb 25, coincided with release v2.0.0.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides expressive, declarative style definitions for building visually appealing terminal user interfaces in Go.
    • Automatically adapts colors and layouts to terminal capabilities, simplifying complex TUI styling with CSS-like syntax.
    • Use for creating styled CLI applications with consistent color profiles and adaptive themes across terminals.
    • Use for rendering complex terminal layouts including tables, lists, and trees with customizable borders and alignment.
    • Use for enhancing Bubble Tea applications by managing low-level layout and style details, enabling focus on app logic.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

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    From the README

    Style definitions for nice terminal layouts. Built with TUIs in mind.

    Lip Gloss takes an expressive, declarative approach to terminal rendering. Users familiar with CSS will feel at home with Lip Gloss.

    Excerpt from the charmbracelet/lipgloss README on GitHub (MIT license). Β© its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    446+64

    Open issues

    158+28

    Compared with peers in CLI

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