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palette

v0.7.6 Growing

Convert and manage colors with a focus on correctness, flexibility and ease of use.

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2018 MSRV 1.60.0
Multimedia::ImagesNo standard libraryGraphics #linear#conversion#color#rgb#pixel

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 1+ year
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (2.5K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
6.9M
Dependents
2.5K
Releases
17
Size
231KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

558.1K downloads in the last 30 days (18.6K/day), up 25% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

2.5K crates depend on palette. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Single maintainer risk

palette has only 1 owner despite 2.5K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern โ€” consider the implications for long-term support.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 10+ years old, palette hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include ratatui, ratatui-core, iced_style, typst-library, typst-html. When high-quality crates choose palette, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 4/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 15/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 15/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 14/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
15K/day avg+60%
05K10K15K20K25K12/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.7.6
63%
v0.6.1
13%
v0.5.0
13%
v0.7.3
7%
v0.4.1
4%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["named_from_str", "std", "approx"]

std*allocnamedrandomfind-crateserializingnamed_from_str*

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
14
direct dependencies
Dependents
2.5K
crates depend on palette

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