chalk, cli-color, and similar libraries have various alternatives which are lighter and faster.
A widely used alternative which is much lighter and faster.
A lighter alternative which also supports 256 color creation.
Node itself has a styleText function in the built-in util library.
You can use it like so:
import { styleText } from 'node:util';
styleText('green', 'Success!')A tiny wrapper (<300 B) on styleText from node:util, provides chainable syntax.