A minimalist, fast, and non-addictive TUI Markdown reader built with Go.

ColorMark is a blazing fast Terminal User Interface (TUI) Markdown viewer built for developers who live in the terminal. No more opening heavy editors or browsers just to read a README.md or documentation. ColorMark gives you a clean, beautiful, and highly responsive Markdown reading experience directly in your terminal.

Why ColorMark?

• Extremely lightweight and fast

• Beautiful rendering with your terminal theme

• Zero heavy runtime dependencies (single binary)

• Vim-like controls + mouse support

Demo

Features

• Fast Rendering with Glamour + custom optimizations

• Vim-style Navigation (j/k, gg, G, Ctrl+D/U)

• Mouse Support

• Single static binary (no Node.js, Python etc.)

Comparison

Speed Very Fast Fast Fast TUI Experience Rich Good Basic Customization High Medium Low Single Binary Yes Yes Yes Active Development Yes Yes Yes

Installation

# Install directly go install github.com/mehmetalidsy/colormark@latest # Or from source git clone https://github.com/mehmetalidsy/colormark.git cd colormark go install .

Usage

colormark README.md colormark docs/api.md

Key Bindings

j / ↓ Scroll down k / ↑ Scroll up gg Go to top G Go to bottom q / Ctrl+C Quit c (hover) Copy code block / Search

Roadmap

• Table of Contents sidebar

• Full text search

• Plugin support

• Export to PDF/HTML

• LSP integration (future)

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to open issues or PRs.