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## Highlights - Expressive API - Highly performant - No dependencies - Ability to nest styles - [256/Truecolor color support](#256-and-truecolor-color-support) - Auto-detects color support - Doesn't extend `String.prototype` - Clean and focused - Actively maintained - [Used by ~86,000 packages](https://www.npmjs.com/browse/depended/chalk) as of October 4, 2022 ... Read more on [Github](https://github.com/chalk/chalk)