Branding

Proud of your code? Add some bling to your terminal.

• No dependencies!
• Pure Ruby PNG decoding in < 200 LoC
• Hi-Res mode for 4x pixel density!
• Hi-Color mode for 720 colors!!
• Loads of fun!

Much quality.

Branding will detect your Rails application's favicon. It adds a small initializer in development and testing environments that draws the favicon with ANSI control characters whenever you run tests, a rake task or boot the console.

hires mode is a technique where we can 4x the "pixel" density of the terminal. This is accomplished by using the half-height unicode characters.

Some terminal fonts do not render these characters very well and there are some artifacts.

So far, Inconsolata has yield the best results.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'branding'

If you're adding branding to your Rails project, there is no more configuration. To test how images look in the terminal:

branding logo-72x72.png

To test out hires mode, try:

branding -p hires logo-144x144.png

Have a good idea to make Branding more awesome? Make a pull request and share your thoughts!