colorous
v1.0.16 GrowingProfessional color schemes ported from d3-scale-chromatic
Quick Verdict
- ✕Not updated for 1+ year
- ✓Stable API (1.x for 6+ years)
- ✓Trusted by 374 crates
- ✓Permissive license (Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
70.3K downloads in the last 30 days (2.3K/day), up 15% from the previous period.
374 crates depend on colorous. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.
The primary maintainer publishes 231 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
The API has been stable (1.x) for over 6 years with 17 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.
At 34KB, colorous is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include softbuffer, tract-libcli, tract, cdshealpix, gmt_dos-clients_crseo. When high-quality crates choose colorous, it's a strong quality signal.
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