Color support

[Avamander]

It would be very useful if one could use colors for text and lines and later export them using ANSI escape codes (or HTML).

[kportertx]

HI, I wanted the same, used AI to implement exactly this: https://github.com/kportertx/asciiflow

[lewish]

Thank you for the suggestion! Colour support is interesting — it would open up a lot of possibilities for distinguishing elements in diagrams.

The main challenge is that ASCII art is fundamentally plain text, so colours would only be visible within ASCIIFlow itself (or in formats that support ANSI colour codes). We'd need to think carefully about what export formats would preserve colours and what the UX would look like.

Keeping this open as a longer-term enhancement. Apologies for the delayed response!