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color-thief

v0.2.2 Growing

Grabs the dominant color or a representative color palette from an image.

MIT
AlgorithmsMultimedia #graphics#color

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 3+ years
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 123 crates
  • โœ“Tiny footprint (521KB, 3 deps)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
467.2K
Dependents
123
Releases
4
Size
521KB

Deep Insights

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Steady growth

20.1K downloads in the last 30 days (670/day), up 11% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

123 crates depend on color-thief. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 8+ years old, color-thief hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Minimal dependencies

Only 3 direct dependencies. Lean dependency tree means faster builds and lower supply chain risk.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include flavours, gst-plugin-videofx, palette-arcade, tinted-scheme-extractor, image-color-service. When high-quality crates choose color-thief, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 3/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 13/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 11/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 11/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
561/day avg+41%
02004006008001K12/301/172/42/223/123/29

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.2.2
91%
v0.2.1
8%
v0.1.0
1%
v0.2.0
0%

Release Timeline

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Maintainers

Dependencies
3
direct dependencies
Dependents
123
crates depend on color-thief

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