CLI output is normally in color but when piping the output to another tool, the color is lost. It’s useful to be able to pipe to “less -R”, which is a pager that preserves ANSI control codes and thus color. Apparently toot is detecting the pipeline as non-interactive and automatically stripping out the color codes even when the “--no-color” option is not supplied. It may be deliberate & it’s probably a sensible default behavior. But if that’s going to be the default then we need a way to force color. The convention is typically a “--color=always” option.