PluginStatsANSI Colors installs statistics
By Ilia Pozdnyakov · VS Code Marketplace · Themes
ANSI color styling for text documents
ANSI Colors has 189,053 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace.
It ranks #1587 of 2,501 tracked VS Code Marketplace listings by installs.
It is rated 4.9 out of 5 from 14 ratings.
PluginStats has 4 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 19, 2026.
Rating: 4.86 / 5 from 14 ratings
About ANSI Colors
ANSI Colors
ANSI Color styling for your text editor.
Basic usage
Select the ANSI Text language mode to highlight text marked up with ANSI escapes. Files with the .ans and .ansi extensions will be highlighted by default.
Run the ANSI Text: Open Preview command for the prettified read-only preview.
Clicking the preview icon in the editor title will open the preview in a new tab. Alt-click to open in the current tab.
The extension fetches the colors from the current theme and aims to look as good as the built-in terminal.
Supported ANSI escape codes
Basic colors and formatting:
8-bit colors:
24-bit colors:
Custom file icon
You can add an icon to the ANSI text files by using the [vscode-icons] extension:
Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.
- ansi
- ANSI text
- colors
- escapes
- keybindings
- logs
Charts
Images: 30d · 1y · all time · 1600×900 dark
Adoption over time
7/30/90-day growth
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Ratings over time
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Listing placement
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Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.
Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=iliazeus.vscode-ansi. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 19, 2026. See the methodology.