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-# Color [![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/fatih/color?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/fatih/color) [![Build Status](https://img.shields.io/travis/fatih/color.svg?style=flat-square)](https://travis-ci.org/fatih/color)
+# Archived project. No maintenance. 
+
+This project is not maintained anymore and is archived. Feel free to fork and
+make your own changes if needed. For more detail read my blog post: [Taking an indefinite sabbatical from my projects](https://arslan.io/2018/10/09/taking-an-indefinite-sabbatical-from-my-projects/)
 
+Thanks to everyone for their valuable feedback and contributions.
 
 
+# Color [![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/fatih/color?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/fatih/color) [![Build Status](https://img.shields.io/travis/fatih/color.svg?style=flat-square)](https://travis-ci.org/fatih/color)
+
 Color lets you use colorized outputs in terms of [ANSI Escape
 Codes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Colors) in Go (Golang). It
 has support for Windows too! The API can be used in several ways, pick one that