PyRank
holoviz

colorcet

A set of useful perceptually uniform colormaps for plotting scientific data
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colorcet has 2.5M monthly downloads and 745 GitHub stars. Version 3.2.1 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2016.

It is stably maintained, last released in Apr 2026.

It is used by 158 tracked packages, including holoviews, hvplot and datashader.

GitHub topics include holoviz, colorcet and colormaps.

Downloads
Day
125.3K
Week
553.6K
Month
2.5M
Stars
745
Forks
62
Issues
2
Version
3.2.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
58
Adoption
70
Community
40
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
54 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,500,330
Active
Activity within 30 days
• Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
2,500,330
Stars
745
Stars per 1k downloads
0.30
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
• Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
79,092
Month daily avg
83,344
Momentum
-5.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
CC-BY-4.0
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
• Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
69 days ago
Total releases
28
Releases/year
2.9
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
25
Monthly downloads
2,500,330
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
39
 
Issue Burden
2.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
40.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 48.0K
macOS 1.2K
Windows 1.1K

Python Versions

3.13
42.0% 20.2K
3.12
26.4% 12.6K
3.10
14.7% 7.0K
3.11
12.4% 6.0K
3.9
4.5% 2.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
42.8K
2. SG SG
2.4K
3. NL NL
1.7K
4. DE DE
831
5. HU HU
797
6. CN CN
578
7. IE IE
555
8. JP JP
321
9. GB GB
185
10. FR FR
172
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
CC-BY-4.0
First Release
November 10, 2016
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
3.2.1
Total Releases
28
Contributors
25
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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