The Rich API make it easy to add colored text (up to 16.7million colors) and styles (bold, italic, underline etc.) to your script or application. Rich can also render pretty tables, markdown and source code with syntax highlighting.
The first step to using the rich console is to import and construct the `Console` object.
```python
from rich.console import Console
console = Console()
```
Most applications will require one `Console` instance. The easiest way to manage your console instance would be to construct an instance at the module level and import it where needed.
The Console object has a `print` method which has an intentionally similar interface to the builtin `print` function. Here's an example of use:
As you might expect, this will print `"Hello World!"` to the terminal. Note that unlike the `print` function, Rich will word-wrap your test to fit within the terminal width.
There are a few ways of adding color and style to your output. You can set a style for the entire output by adding a `style` keyword argument. Here's an example:
That's fine for styling a line of text at a time. For more finely grained styling, Rich renders a special markup which is similar in syntax to [bbcode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode). Here's an example:
Note that the CSS hex and RGB style of color lets you chose one of 16.7 million colors, but some terminals (notably OSX terminal) only support 256 colors. If Rich detects that only 256 colors are supported it will pick the closest color available. In practice this means that you may not get exactly the color you ask for, but it is generally _close enough_.
Style attributes and colors may appear in any order, i.e. `"bold magenta on yellow"` has the same effect as `"on yellow magenta bold"`. The latter may be preferred by Yoda.
The Console object has a `log()` method which has a similar interface to `print()`, but also renders a column for the current time and the file and line which made the call. By default, Rich will do syntax highlighting for Python structures and for repr strings. If you log a collection (i.e. a dict or a list) Rich will pretty print it so that it fits in the available space. Here's an example of some of these features.
To render markdown import the `Markdown` class and construct it with a string containing markdown code. Then print it to the console. Here's an example:
This will produce output something like the following:

## Syntax Highlighting
Rich uses the [pygments](https://pygments.org/) library to implement syntax highlighting. Usage is similar to rendering markdown; construct a `Syntax` object and print it to the console. Here's an example:
Rich can render flexible tables with unicode box characters. There is a large variety of formatting options for borders, styles, cell alignment etc. Here's a simple example:
"Dev 20, 2019", "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker", "$275,000,0000", "$375,126,118"
)
table.add_row(
"May 25, 2018",
"[red]Solo[/red]: A Star Wars Story",
"$275,000,0000",
"$393,151,347",
)
table.add_row(
"Dec 15, 2017",
"Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi",
"$262,000,000",
"[bold]$1,332,539,889[/bold]",
)
console.print(table)
```
This produces the following output:

Note that console markup is rendered in the same was as `print()` and `log()`. In fact, anything that is renderable by Rich may be included in the headers / rows (even other tables).
The `Table` class is smart enough to resize columns to fit the available width of the terminal, wrapping text as required. Here's the same example, with the terminal made smaller than the table above: