A lightweight Swift package for creating beautiful ASCII and emoji boxes around text content. Perfect for CLI applications, logging, or anywhere you want to make text output more visually appealing.

• Create ASCII-style boxes around text
• Create emoji-style boxes for a more playful look
• Support for multi-line content
• Optional centered first line
• Customizable box width
• Smart width calculation based on content
• Proper handling of visual string lengths
• Customizable box styles

Add the following to your Package.swift file:

dependencies: [
    .package(url: "https://github.com/yourusername/Boxed.git", from: "1.0.0")
]

import Boxed

Boxed.ascii("Hello, World!")

Output:

┌──────────────────────┐
│                      │
│     Hello, World!    │
│                      │
└──────────────────────┘

import Boxed

Boxed.emoji("Welcome!\nTo my app")

Output:

🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦
⬜️                    ⬜️
⬜️     Welcome!      ⬜️
⬜️     To my app     ⬜️
⬜️                    ⬜️
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦

Boxed.ascii(
    "Custom Width Example",
    width: 40,
    centerFirstLine: true
)

Boxed.emoji(
    "Multiple\nLines\nOf\nText",
    width: 30,
    centerFirstLine: false
)

public static func ascii(
    _ message: String,
    width: Int = 120,
    centerFirstLine: Bool = true,
    boxStyle: BoxCharactersProvider = BoxStyle.ascii
)

public static func emoji(
    _ message: String,
    width: Int = 120,
    centerFirstLine: Bool = true,
    boxStyle: BoxCharactersProvider = BoxStyle.ascii
)

• message: The text content to be boxed (supports multiple lines using \n)
• width: The minimum width of the box (default: 120)
• centerFirstLine: Whether to center the first line of text (default: true)
• boxStyle: The style provider for box characters (default: BoxStyle.ascii)

You can create custom box styles by implementing the BoxCharactersProvider protocol:

public protocol BoxCharactersProvider {
    var topLeft: Character { get }
    var topRight: Character { get }
    var bottomLeft: Character { get }
    var bottomRight: Character { get }
    var horizontal: Character { get }
    var vertical: Character { get }
}

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.