I spent a lot of time resurrecting this project with a major overhaul. This should be OK by Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html The project was basically dead for the past six years. You couldn't even install it with pip before. So you can barely say it existed it all. Now it's polished up with documentation, CI testing, clear kosher licensing, and ready to be used by actual people. Thank you for allowing me to share this with the community.

great job keeping stuff like this current...it is sad to think how many promising projects might get lost due to inability of the original devs to maintain them.

Sorry if i missed it, but does it support python 2.X and 3.X?

It currently only supports 2.X: https://github.com/jart/fabulous/blob/master/.travis.yml But I can make it support 3.X if you need that.

You should in general just to support Python3... the more people that support it, the better for the ecosystem.

Are you planning to support true color?

This gist has some information and also tracks adoption in other software packages: https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728

I would love to do that. Although I'm hoping the project gets a little traction first. Most of my time is pretty focused on my day job. I will however happily accept pull requests.

There's standalone utility catimg (https://github.com/posva/catimg) written in C. It supports animation and 2x "retina" resolution using unicode symbols. Here's blog post about it: http://posva.net/shell/retro/bash/2013/05/27/catimg/

Does the text in that blog post look very blurry for anyone else?

No, looks fine for me (Retina display).

For those that are interested, I've also released my approach to imagery in the terminal (Python):

https://github.com/daleroberts/tv

It would have been nice if you chose a font size where the blocks were aligned, when representing your hiptext comparison.

I would also be happy to accept pull requests from you, adding true color support to hiptext.

Any recommendations for the font size? I'm just using standard Menlo Regular 11. I didn't want to do hiptext any injustice.

I found the reason in the CSS, “text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #000;”. Can you see the blur if you change the background-color to #fff?

This is quite cool - far beyond termcolor, for instance.