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Why colorize terminal output when you can colorize on the reader?
Colorful text is a must, because we are visual creatures. We process shapes and colors way better than symbols. Confronted to a screen full of text, it is hard to make sense of it, without meaningful coloring. I even find pure text repulsive, I don’t want to look.