sharkdp.pastel

2024-08-14

So I have been trying to get back to the command line. In recent months I’ve discovered and rediscovered some great CLI must haves:

  • zoxide, for switching easily between previously visited directories
  • fzf, for fuzzy finding files
  • bat, an improved version of cat
  • ripgrep, fast grep
  • fd, fast find

I use winget on Windows and the fd and bat commands are from the sharkdp.bat and sharkdp.fd packages respectively. So out of curiousity I did winget search sharkdp, and stumbled across some other really nice tools, but one that caught my eye was pastel.

With pastel you can view and manipulate colors from the command line. As a web designer/developer, this will come in handy for sure!

screenshot of pastel running in the command line