A programming library providing an application programming interface (API) that allows the programmer to output colored text in terminal user interfaces (CLI). Applications can send messages to msgcollector which it collects and dispatches once instructed to do so by the application. For clarity and avoidance of confusion, msgcollector does not collect any data. Applications that do not use msgcollector do not interact with msgcollector. It is roughly in the same category as ncurses but has of course much less and very different features. For graphical user interface (GUI) support also install package msgcollector-gui.