CandySprinkles

PHP port of charmbracelet/lipgloss — declarative styling and layout for terminal UIs.

composer require sugarcraft/candy-sprinkles

Quickstart

use SugarCraft\Sprinkles\Style;

echo Style::new()
    ->bold()
    ->fg('#ff5f87')        // accepts hex string or Color instance
    ->on('#1e1e2e')        // background — reads naturally in chains
    ->pad(0, 2)            // CSS-style 1/2/4-arg padding
    ->of('hello, candy world')
    ->render() . "\n";

fg / bg / on / pad / mg / of are short-form ergonomic aliases. The upstream-mirroring full names (foreground / background / padding / margin / setString) work identically — pick whichever reads better at the call site:

use SugarCraft\Core\Util\Color;

echo Style::new()
    ->bold()
    ->foreground(Color::hex('#ff5f87'))
    ->background(Color::hex('#1e1e2e'))
    ->padding(0, 2)
    ->setString('hello, candy world')
    ->render() . "\n";

Layout helpers

use SugarCraft\Sprinkles\Layout;
use SugarCraft\Sprinkles\Position;

// Side-by-side
echo Layout::joinHorizontal(Position::TOP, $left, $right);

// Top-down
echo Layout::joinVertical(Position::LEFT, $header, $body, $footer);

// Place inside a fixed rectangle
echo Layout::place(40, 10, Position::CENTER, Position::CENTER, 'centered text');

Tables

use SugarCraft\Sprinkles\Border;
use SugarCraft\Sprinkles\Table\Table;
use SugarCraft\Sprinkles\Style;

$styled = Table::new()
    ->headers('Name', 'Age')
    ->row('Alice', '30')
    ->row('Bob',   '25')
    ->border(Border::rounded())
    ->styleFunc(static fn(int $row, int $col): Style
        => $row === Table::HEADER_ROW
            ? Style::new()->bold()
            : Style::new())
    ->render();
echo $styled;

Trees & lists

use SugarCraft\Sprinkles\Listing\{Enumerator, ItemList};
use SugarCraft\Sprinkles\Tree\Tree;

echo ItemList::new()
    ->items(['Apples', 'Bananas', 'Cherries'])
    ->enumerator(Enumerator::roman())
    ->render();

echo Tree::new()
    ->root('Documents')
    ->child(Tree::new()->root('Travel')->child('Italy.md')->child('Japan.md'))
    ->child('Resume.pdf')
    ->render();

Public API

• Style — every lipgloss prop (~40 with*() methods): fg/bg/border colours (incl. per-side), bold/italic/underline/strikethrough/faint/blink/ reverse, padding/margin (1/2/4-arg shorthand + per-side), width/height, maxWidth/maxHeight, align (Align/VAlign), inline, transform, tabWidth, marginBackground, colorWhitespace. Plus 21 getters and 15 unset*().
• Border — normal(), rounded(), thick(), double(), block(), hidden(). Per-side toggles via Style::border*.
• AdaptiveColor / CompleteColor / CompleteAdaptiveColor — pick the right concrete colour at render time per ColorProfile (TrueColor / 256 / Ansi) or per dark-vs-light background.
• LightDark — pick helper for dark-bg vs light-bg colour schemes.
• Layout — Place, PlaceHorizontal, PlaceVertical, JoinHorizontal, JoinVertical, Width, Height, Size (all package-level layout primitives from lipgloss).
• Position — TOP / LEFT / CENTER / RIGHT / BOTTOM floats for layout anchors.
• Listing\ItemList + Listing\Enumerator — bullet, dash, asterisk, arabic, alphabet, roman, romanUpper, decimal, none. Nested sublists + per-item style hooks.
• Tree\Tree + Tree\Enumerator — default / rounded / ascii connector sets; per-section style overrides; custom indenter.
• Table\Table — headers / row(s) / border / align / headerAlign / rowAlign / styleFunc / per-side border toggles / width / offset / clearRows / data(Data).
• Table\Data — row-reader interface (rows / columns / at($r, $c)). Default impl Table\StringData::fromMatrix(iterable).
• Output — top-level print / println / sprint / printf / fprint($stream, …) (style-agnostic).
• Renderer — per-writer rendering context: withColorProfile / withHasDarkBackground / newStyle() / lightDark() / resolveAdaptive(AdaptiveColor) / fromEnvironment().
• Palette — named ANSI 16-slot constants (Black / Red / … BrightWhite) + hasDarkBackground() helper.
• UnderlineStyle — enum (None / Single / Double / Curly / Dotted / Dashed) for SGR 4:N sub-style emit.

Custom Renderer & color-profile

Sprinkles\Renderer bundles a colour profile + a dark-background flag so you can branch behaviour without threading the values through every Style call:

$r     = Renderer::new()
    ->withColorProfile(ColorProfile::Ansi256)   // forced 256-colour
    ->withHasDarkBackground(false);              // light terminal
$style = $r->newStyle()->bold()->foreground(...);
$pick  = $r->lightDark();                        // closure(light, dark)

Each Style owns a colorProfile() setter too — the renderer is just a convenience wrapper. Renderer::fromEnvironment() calls ColorProfile::detect() for you (consults NO_COLOR, CLICOLOR_FORCE, TERM_PROGRAM, etc.).

PHP's stream model is coarser than Go's, so the writer-binding NewRenderer(out) shape is not mirrored. Pair with Output::fprint($stream, ...) when you need to write to a specific stream.

Color blending utilities

Util\Color ships the lipgloss-equivalent helpers:

Method	Returns
Color::hex('#ff5f87')	RGB
Color::ansi(13)	named ANSI slot
Color::ansi256(213)	xterm-256
$c->blend($other, $t)	linear LERP, t ∈ [0, 1]
Color::blend1D($a, $b, int $steps)	list of N stops
Color::blend2D($tl, $tr, $bl, $br, $w, $h)	2D grid
$c->lighten($amount) / darken($amount)	luminance ±amount
$c->alpha($amount)	premultiply alpha onto a backdrop
$c->complementary()	hue + 180°

Named ANSI slots live on Sprinkles\Palette: Palette::Red, Palette::BrightWhite, etc. Use Palette::hasDarkBackground() for a no-args terminal-detect.

OSC-8 hyperlinks & underline styles

Style::hyperlink($url) wraps the rendered output in \x1b]8;;URL… escapes; modern terminals turn it into a clickable link, the rest fall through to plain text. Combine with Style::underline() + Style::underlineStyle(UnderlineStyle::Curly) (the SGR 4:3 sub-style) and Style::underlineColor(Color::hex('#ff0000')) to emit a wavy red spell-check-style underline that degrades cleanly to a plain SGR 4 underline on terminals that don't speak the sub-style.

Style copy-vs-inheritance

Every with*() setter returns a new Style — the receiver is never mutated. Style::copy() returns a shallow clone for those moments you want a known checkpoint to branch from.

Style::inherit($parent) merges unset props from the parent. Inheritable properties: bold / italic / underline / strike / faint / blink / reverse / fg / bg / borderFg / borderBg (only if the child hasn't set them). Layout / structural properties (width / height / padding / margin / border / borderSides) don't inherit — every component is layout-independent. This matches lipgloss v2's "explicit wins" rule.

Measurement utilities

Sprinkles\Layout exposes the three measurement helpers from lipgloss's package level:

• Layout::Width($s) — visible cell width of a (possibly ANSI-coloured, multibyte) string.
• Layout::Height($s) — number of \n-separated lines.
• Layout::Size($s) — [width, height] tuple.

All three strip ANSI escapes before measuring, honour East-Asian wide cells, and round the same way Style::render() does — so you can Layout::Width($style->render('xx')) to budget a component's footprint reliably.

Table StyleFunc + per-section borders

Table::styleFunc(\Closure(int $row, int $col): Style) runs once per cell to pick its style. Row index Table::HEADER_ROW (constant -1) identifies the header.

$striped = Table::new()
    ->headers('Name', 'Score')
    ->rows([['Alice', '93'], ['Bob', '87']])
    ->styleFunc(static fn (int $r, int $c): Style =>
        $r === Table::HEADER_ROW
            ? Style::new()->bold()
            : ($r % 2 === 0 ? Style::new()->faint() : Style::new()),
    );

The four border-section flags (borderHeader / borderRow / borderColumn / borderTop/Right/Bottom/Left) decide which separators draw. Defaults: rounded outer + header rule + column verticals; row separators off.

Graceful colour degradation

A Style carries a ColorProfile (TrueColor / Ansi256 / Ansi / NoTty). render() downsamples every colour to that tier before emit:

TrueColor  → SGR 38;2;R;G;B  (24-bit)
Ansi256    → SGR 38;5;N      (xterm-256 nearest match)
Ansi       → SGR 30..37 / 90..97  (named slots)
NoTty      → no SGR at all   (clean text)

Use Style::colorProfile(ColorProfile::Ansi) for a forced downgrade or Renderer::fromEnvironment() to auto-detect from NO_COLOR / CLICOLOR_FORCE / TERM / COLORTERM / TERM_PROGRAM / WT_SESSION / CI markers.

Test

cd candy-sprinkles && composer install && vendor/bin/phpunit

Demos

Border styles

Canvas (multi-layer compositor)

Layout dashboard

List

Style

Table

Tree