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colorous

v1.0.16 Growing

Professional color schemes ported from d3-scale-chromatic

Apache-2.0 Edition 2021 MSRV 1.60

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 1+ year
  • โœ“Stable API (1.x for 5+ years)
  • โœ“Trusted by 353 crates
  • โœ“Permissive license (Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
912.7K
Dependents
353
Releases
17
Size
34KB

Deep Insights

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Steady growth

60.1K downloads in the last 30 days (2.0K/day), up 4% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

353 crates depend on colorous. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 231 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.

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Stable for 5+ years

The API has been stable (1.x) for over 5 years with 17 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.

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Compact crate

At 34KB, colorous is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include softbuffer, tract-libcli, tract, cdshealpix, gmt_dos-clients. When high-quality crates choose colorous, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 6/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 21/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 12/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 15/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
2K/day avg+40%
01K2K3K4K12/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v1.0.16
41%
v1.0.12
29%
v1.0.8
13%
v1.0.14
9%
v1.0.10
8%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

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Maintainers

Dependencies
4
direct dependencies
Dependents
353
crates depend on colorous

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