I recently built a small C++ console application and wanted to enhance it with colorful output and text effects. While modern Windows versions support ANSI escape codes, I was looking for a clean, cross-platform solution that works consistently across all systems.

To solve this, I created havTermKit, a lightweight terminal utility library for modern C and C++, available on GitHub under the MIT license.

It provides ANSI escape macros for:

• Text styling
• Foreground and background colors
• Cursor control
• Screen clearing
• Hyperlinks

Additionally, it includes a small initialization function to enable VT processing and UTF-8 support on Windows.