Chaining styles

Styles compose left-to-right. Each accessor returns a new builder; calling it applies the accumulated styles.

import marker from 'console-marker';

marker.red('text')
marker.bold.red('text')
marker.bold.italic.underline.bgBlue.white('text')

How caching works

Every chain is cached globally — accessing marker.red.bold twice returns the same object. There is no allocation cost after warmup.

marker.red.bold === marker.red.bold  // true — same reference

The cache key is the combined ANSI open and close escape sequences plus the color level. Two builders with identical accumulated codes at the same level share one object.

Style order

ANSI escapes are applied in the order you chain them:

marker.bold.red('text')
// → '\x1b[1m\x1b[31mtext\x1b[39m\x1b[22m'
//     bold↑   red↑         close red↑ close bold↑

Close codes are written in reverse: the most recently opened style is closed first.

Available modifiers

Style	Open	Close
bold	\x1b[1m	\x1b[22m
dim	\x1b[2m	\x1b[22m
italic	\x1b[3m	\x1b[23m
underline	\x1b[4m	\x1b[24m
overline	\x1b[53m	\x1b[55m
inverse	\x1b[7m	\x1b[27m
hidden	\x1b[8m	\x1b[28m
strikethrough	\x1b[9m	\x1b[29m
reset	\x1b[0m	\x1b[0m

Foreground colors

black red green yellow blue magenta cyan white gray / grey

Bright variants: redBright greenBright yellowBright blueBright magentaBright cyanBright whiteBright blackBright

Background colors

bgBlack bgRed bgGreen bgYellow bgBlue bgMagenta bgCyan bgWhite bgGray / bgGrey

Bright variants: bgRedBright bgGreenBright bgYellowBright bgBlueBright bgMagentaBright bgCyanBright bgWhiteBright bgBlackBright