diff --git a/src/synthetic/cli.zig b/src/synthetic/cli.zig
index dcac0d0dc..560896030 100644
--- a/src/synthetic/cli.zig
+++ b/src/synthetic/cli.zig
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ pub const Action = enum {
     ascii,
     kitty,
     osc,
+    styled,
     utf8,
 
     /// Returns the struct associated with the action. The struct
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ pub const Action = enum {
             .ascii => @import("cli/Ascii.zig"),
             .kitty => @import("cli/Kitty.zig"),
             .osc => @import("cli/Osc.zig"),
+            .styled => @import("cli/Styled.zig"),
             .utf8 => @import("cli/Utf8.zig"),
         };
     }
diff --git a/src/synthetic/cli/Styled.zig b/src/synthetic/cli/Styled.zig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c437a6ab5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/synthetic/cli/Styled.zig
@@ -0,0 +1,410 @@
+//! Generates styled terminal content: lines of printable text
+//! interspersed with SGR sequences, optional multi-byte UTF-8
+//! codepoints, combining marks (multi-codepoint graphemes), and
+//! OSC 8 hyperlinks.
+//!
+//! This exists primarily to build corpora for benchmarking code that
+//! consumes terminal *contents* (e.g. the terminal formatter used for
+//! clipboard copy and dumps), where we want workloads with controlled
+//! amounts of styling and Unicode rather than raw random bytes.
+//!
+//! Examples:
+//!
+//!   # Plain ASCII lines (equivalent to `ascii` with lines)
+//!   ghostty-gen styled --seed=42
+//!
+//!   # Heavily styled ASCII
+//!   ghostty-gen styled --seed=42 --style-rate=0.8
+//!
+//!   # Unicode-heavy, no styling
+//!   ghostty-gen styled --seed=42 --weight-two=1 --weight-three=1 \
+//!     --weight-four=0.5 --grapheme-rate=0.1
+//!
+//!   # Mixed: styles, Unicode, and hyperlinks
+//!   ghostty-gen styled --seed=42 --style-rate=0.3 --weight-two=0.5 \
+//!     --weight-three=0.25 --weight-four=0.1 --grapheme-rate=0.05 \
+//!     --osc8-rate=0.1
+const Styled = @This();
+
+const std = @import("std");
+const assert = std.debug.assert;
+const Allocator = std.mem.Allocator;
+
+pub const Options = struct {
+    /// Seed to use for deterministic generation. If unset, a time-based
+    /// seed is used by the generic synthetic CLI.
+    seed: ?u64 = null,
+
+    /// Emit lines whose printable length (in characters, not columns)
+    /// is uniformly distributed in `[line-min, line-max]`. Each line is
+    /// terminated by CR LF.
+    @"line-min": usize = 40,
+    @"line-max": usize = 80,
+
+    /// Probability that a style change (SGR sequence) is emitted at
+    /// each run boundary. Zero (default) produces unstyled output.
+    @"style-rate": f64 = 0.0,
+
+    /// The length in characters of a "run": a sequence of characters
+    /// that share styling. Style/hyperlink changes only happen on run
+    /// boundaries.
+    @"run-min": usize = 4,
+    @"run-max": usize = 16,
+
+    /// Relative weights for choosing the UTF-8 encoding length of each
+    /// generated character. Unlike the raw `utf8` generator, characters
+    /// are drawn from curated printable ranges so the output never
+    /// contains control characters:
+    ///
+    ///   one:   printable ASCII (with occasional spaces)
+    ///   two:   Latin-1 Supplement / Latin Extended (narrow)
+    ///   three: Hiragana/Katakana and CJK ideographs (wide)
+    ///   four:  emoji (wide)
+    @"weight-one": f64 = 1.0,
+    @"weight-two": f64 = 0.0,
+    @"weight-three": f64 = 0.0,
+    @"weight-four": f64 = 0.0,
+
+    /// Probability that a generated character is followed by a
+    /// combining diacritical mark, producing a multi-codepoint
+    /// grapheme cluster.
+    @"grapheme-rate": f64 = 0.0,
+
+    /// Probability that an OSC 8 hyperlink is toggled (opened or
+    /// closed) at each run boundary.
+    @"osc8-rate": f64 = 0.0,
+};
+
+opts: Options,
+
+pub fn create(
+    alloc: Allocator,
+    opts: Options,
+) !*Styled {
+    for ([_]f64{
+        opts.@"style-rate",
+        opts.@"grapheme-rate",
+        opts.@"osc8-rate",
+    }) |rate| {
+        if (rate < 0 or rate > 1) return error.InvalidValue;
+    }
+
+    const weights = [_]f64{
+        opts.@"weight-one",
+        opts.@"weight-two",
+        opts.@"weight-three",
+        opts.@"weight-four",
+    };
+    var weight_sum: f64 = 0;
+    for (weights) |weight| {
+        if (weight < 0) return error.InvalidValue;
+        weight_sum += weight;
+    }
+    if (weight_sum <= 0) return error.InvalidValue;
+
+    if (opts.@"line-min" == 0) return error.InvalidValue;
+    if (opts.@"run-min" == 0) return error.InvalidValue;
+
+    const ptr = try alloc.create(Styled);
+    errdefer alloc.destroy(ptr);
+    ptr.* = .{ .opts = opts };
+    return ptr;
+}
+
+pub fn destroy(self: *Styled, alloc: Allocator) void {
+    alloc.destroy(self);
+}
+
+pub fn run(self: *Styled, writer: *std.Io.Writer, rand: std.Random) !void {
+    var prng: ?std.Random.DefaultPrng = null;
+    var gen_rand = rand;
+    if (self.opts.seed) |seed| {
+        prng = std.Random.DefaultPrng.init(seed);
+        gen_rand = prng.?.random();
+    }
+
+    var state: State = .{};
+    while (true) {
+        self.writeLine(writer, gen_rand, &state) catch |err| {
+            const Error = error{ WriteFailed, BrokenPipe } || @TypeOf(err);
+            switch (@as(Error, err)) {
+                error.BrokenPipe => return, // stdout closed
+                error.WriteFailed => return, // fixed buffer full
+            }
+        };
+    }
+}
+
+const State = struct {
+    /// True when a non-default SGR style is currently active.
+    styled: bool = false,
+
+    /// True when an OSC 8 hyperlink is currently open.
+    link: bool = false,
+};
+
+fn writeLine(
+    self: *Styled,
+    writer: *std.Io.Writer,
+    rand: std.Random,
+    state: *State,
+) std.Io.Writer.Error!void {
+    const line_min = self.opts.@"line-min";
+    const line_max = @max(line_min, self.opts.@"line-max");
+    const run_min = self.opts.@"run-min";
+    const run_max = @max(run_min, self.opts.@"run-max");
+
+    const line_len = rand.intRangeAtMostBiased(usize, line_min, line_max);
+    var remaining = line_len;
+    while (remaining > 0) {
+        if (self.opts.@"style-rate" > 0 and
+            rand.float(f64) < self.opts.@"style-rate")
+        {
+            try self.writeSgr(writer, rand, state);
+        }
+
+        if (self.opts.@"osc8-rate" > 0 and
+            rand.float(f64) < self.opts.@"osc8-rate")
+        {
+            try self.toggleLink(writer, rand, state);
+        }
+
+        const run_len = @min(
+            remaining,
+            rand.intRangeAtMostBiased(usize, run_min, run_max),
+        );
+        for (0..run_len) |_| try self.writeChar(writer, rand);
+        remaining -= run_len;
+    }
+
+    // Close any open styling/hyperlink so state never bleeds across
+    // lines. This mirrors what well-behaved programs do.
+    if (state.styled) {
+        try writer.writeAll("\x1b[0m");
+        state.styled = false;
+    }
+    if (state.link) {
+        try writer.writeAll("\x1b]8;;\x1b\\");
+        state.link = false;
+    }
+
+    try writer.writeAll("\r\n");
+}
+
+fn writeChar(
+    self: *Styled,
+    writer: *std.Io.Writer,
+    rand: std.Random,
+) std.Io.Writer.Error!void {
+    const weights = [_]f64{
+        self.opts.@"weight-one",
+        self.opts.@"weight-two",
+        self.opts.@"weight-three",
+        self.opts.@"weight-four",
+    };
+
+    const cp: u21 = switch (rand.weightedIndex(f64, &weights)) {
+        // Printable ASCII with occasional word-ish spacing.
+        0 => if (rand.float(f64) < 0.15)
+            ' '
+        else
+            rand.intRangeAtMostBiased(u21, 0x21, 0x7E),
+
+        // Latin-1 Supplement and Latin Extended-A/B (narrow).
+        1 => rand.intRangeAtMostBiased(u21, 0xC0, 0x24F),
+
+        // Kana or CJK ideographs (wide).
+        2 => if (rand.boolean())
+            rand.intRangeAtMostBiased(u21, 0x3041, 0x30FE)
+        else
+            rand.intRangeAtMostBiased(u21, 0x4E00, 0x9FFF),
+
+        // Emoji (wide).
+        3 => rand.intRangeAtMostBiased(u21, 0x1F600, 0x1F64F),
+
+        else => unreachable,
+    };
+
+    try writer.print("{u}", .{cp});
+
+    // Optionally follow with a combining diacritical mark to form a
+    // multi-codepoint grapheme cluster.
+    if (self.opts.@"grapheme-rate" > 0 and
+        rand.float(f64) < self.opts.@"grapheme-rate")
+    {
+        const mark = rand.intRangeAtMostBiased(u21, 0x300, 0x36F);
+        try writer.print("{u}", .{mark});
+    }
+}
+
+fn writeSgr(
+    self: *Styled,
+    writer: *std.Io.Writer,
+    rand: std.Random,
+    state: *State,
+) std.Io.Writer.Error!void {
+    _ = self;
+
+    switch (rand.uintLessThan(u8, 8)) {
+        // Reset.
+        0 => {
+            try writer.writeAll("\x1b[0m");
+            state.styled = false;
+            return;
+        },
+
+        // 16-color foreground.
+        1 => {
+            const base: u8 = if (rand.boolean()) 30 else 90;
+            try writer.print("\x1b[{d}m", .{base + rand.uintLessThan(u8, 8)});
+        },
+
+        // 16-color background.
+        2 => {
+            const base: u8 = if (rand.boolean()) 40 else 100;
+            try writer.print("\x1b[{d}m", .{base + rand.uintLessThan(u8, 8)});
+        },
+
+        // 256-color foreground/background.
+        3 => try writer.print("\x1b[38;5;{d}m", .{rand.int(u8)}),
+        4 => try writer.print("\x1b[48;5;{d}m", .{rand.int(u8)}),
+
+        // RGB foreground/background. Components are quantized so the
+        // number of unique styles stays bounded (6^3 per channel pair)
+        // rather than pathologically unique per cell.
+        5, 6 => |kind| {
+            const layer: u8 = if (kind == 5) 38 else 48;
+            try writer.print("\x1b[{d};2;{d};{d};{d}m", .{
+                layer,
+                rand.uintLessThan(u8, 6) * 51,
+                rand.uintLessThan(u8, 6) * 51,
+                rand.uintLessThan(u8, 6) * 51,
+            });
+        },
+
+        // Attributes: bold, italic, underline, inverse, strikethrough.
+        7 => {
+            const attrs = [_]u8{ 1, 3, 4, 7, 9 };
+            try writer.print("\x1b[{d}m", .{
+                attrs[rand.uintLessThan(usize, attrs.len)],
+            });
+        },
+
+        else => unreachable,
+    }
+
+    state.styled = true;
+}
+
+fn toggleLink(
+    self: *Styled,
+    writer: *std.Io.Writer,
+    rand: std.Random,
+    state: *State,
+) std.Io.Writer.Error!void {
+    _ = self;
+
+    if (state.link) {
+        try writer.writeAll("\x1b]8;;\x1b\\");
+        state.link = false;
+        return;
+    }
+
+    try writer.print(
+        "\x1b]8;;http://example.com/{d}\x1b\\",
+        .{rand.uintLessThan(u16, 1024)},
+    );
+    state.link = true;
+}
+
+test Styled {
+    const testing = std.testing;
+    const alloc = testing.allocator;
+
+    const impl: *Styled = try .create(alloc, .{ .seed = 1 });
+    defer impl.destroy(alloc);
+
+    var prng = std.Random.DefaultPrng.init(1);
+    const rand = prng.random();
+
+    var buf: [4096]u8 = undefined;
+    var writer: std.Io.Writer = .fixed(&buf);
+    try impl.run(&writer, rand);
+    const output = writer.buffered();
+    try testing.expect(output.len > 0);
+
+    // Default options: plain printable ASCII lines only.
+    for (output) |byte| {
+        try testing.expect(byte == '\r' or byte == '\n' or
+            (byte >= 0x20 and byte < 0x7F));
+    }
+}
+
+test "Styled styled output" {
+    const testing = std.testing;
+    const alloc = testing.allocator;
+
+    const impl: *Styled = try .create(alloc, .{
+        .seed = 1,
+        .@"style-rate" = 0.5,
+        .@"osc8-rate" = 0.2,
+    });
+    defer impl.destroy(alloc);
+
+    var prng = std.Random.DefaultPrng.init(1);
+    const rand = prng.random();
+
+    var buf: [16384]u8 = undefined;
+    var writer: std.Io.Writer = .fixed(&buf);
+    try impl.run(&writer, rand);
+    const output = writer.buffered();
+
+    // Must contain SGR and OSC 8 sequences.
+    try testing.expect(std.mem.indexOf(u8, output, "\x1b[") != null);
+    try testing.expect(std.mem.indexOf(u8, output, "\x1b]8;;") != null);
+}
+
+test "Styled unicode output" {
+    const testing = std.testing;
+    const alloc = testing.allocator;
+
+    const impl: *Styled = try .create(alloc, .{
+        .seed = 1,
+        .@"weight-two" = 1.0,
+        .@"weight-three" = 1.0,
+        .@"weight-four" = 1.0,
+        .@"grapheme-rate" = 0.25,
+    });
+    defer impl.destroy(alloc);
+
+    var prng = std.Random.DefaultPrng.init(1);
+    const rand = prng.random();
+
+    var buf: [16384]u8 = undefined;
+    var writer: std.Io.Writer = .fixed(&buf);
+    try impl.run(&writer, rand);
+    const output = writer.buffered();
+
+    // No escapes, valid UTF-8 (modulo a possibly truncated tail from
+    // the fixed buffer filling up mid-sequence).
+    try testing.expect(std.mem.indexOfScalar(u8, output, 0x1B) == null);
+    var end = output.len;
+    while (end > 0 and output[end - 1] & 0xC0 == 0x80) end -= 1;
+    if (end > 0 and output[end - 1] >= 0xC0) end -= 1;
+    try testing.expect(std.unicode.utf8ValidateSlice(output[0..end]));
+}
+
+test "Styled invalid options" {
+    const testing = std.testing;
+    const alloc = testing.allocator;
+
+    try testing.expectError(error.InvalidValue, Styled.create(alloc, .{
+        .@"style-rate" = 1.5,
+    }));
+    try testing.expectError(error.InvalidValue, Styled.create(alloc, .{
+        .@"weight-one" = 0,
+    }));
+    try testing.expectError(error.InvalidValue, Styled.create(alloc, .{
+        .@"line-min" = 0,
+    }));
+}