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Recommend crate to use for color in the CLI

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli, documentation

Research direction

Read src/in-depth/human-communication.md and review the existing guidance on CLI output. Research Rust crates that provide colored terminal output, then recommend the most suitable crate for the book. Done means the page includes a clear crate recommendation and explains its relevance to colored error and log output.

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Description

documentation

CLI usually use color to output different log more visually, e.g. red for error.

Choosing a crate which provides this would be a good inclusion to https://github.com/rust-cli/book/blob/master/src/in-depth/human-communication.md

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