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printable-characters

A little helper for handling strings containing zero width control characters, ANSI styling, whitespaces, newlines, 💩, etc.

v1.0.42, 16 Jul 2018UnlicenseCommonJSTypes: NoneCLI tools and terminal utilities
$ npm install printable-characters
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Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
2.4m
+100% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
-
No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
0
Direct, from package.json
Last release
8 years ago
v1.0.42
GitHub stars
19
7 forks
Open issues / PRs
2 / 3
Contributors
-
Commits, last 52 weeks
0

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
01m2m3m4mSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 3.7m (4 Aug 2026)Low 851.5k (23 Dec 2025)
Weekly npm downloads, one point per week, weeks starting 23 Sept 2025 to 15 Sept 2026. The y axis starts at zero.

2,397,974 downloads last week, 12,602,451 in the last month. The 12-month change of +100% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Maintenance

Releases, last 12 months
040 in total
Latest version
1.0.42, 16 Jul 20188 years ago
First published
30 Jun 2017
Last push to GitHub
8 Oct 2025351 days before the snapshot
Repository archived
No
Open issues
2
Open pull requests
3
Commits, last 52 weeks
0
Dependents on npm
-

Major versions

  1. v1 first release 1.0.0, 30 Jun 2017

Recent releases

VersionPublished
1.0.4216 Jul 2018
1.0.3929 Apr 2018
1.0.387 Oct 2017
1.0.377 Oct 2017
1.0.367 Oct 2017
1.0.357 Oct 2017
1.0.347 Oct 2017
1.0.3327 Sept 2017
1.0.3227 Sept 2017
1.0.3127 Sept 2017
1.0.3027 Sept 2017
1.0.2927 Sept 2017
1.0.2823 Jul 2017
1.0.2723 Jul 2017

Compatibility

Module format
CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types
None
Node.js engine range
Not declared
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
187 kB
Dependencies (0)
None

Install

npm install printable-characters

CDN

  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/printable-characters@1.0.42/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/printable-characters@1.0.42/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/printable-characters@1.0.42
Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.