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colorful

Terminal string styling done right, in Python :snake: :tada:
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

colorful has 16.5M monthly downloads and 540 GitHub stars. Version 0.5.8, first published in 2013.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Oct 2025.

It is built on top of colorama. It is used by 54 tracked packages, including radish-bdd, pontos and nrql-simple.

GitHub topics include terminal, string and colors.

Downloads
Day
472.5K
Week
3.5M
Month
16.5M
Stars
540
Forks
20
Issues
8
Version
0.5.8

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
51
Adoption
60
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
250 days ago
Monthly downloads
16,474,591
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
16,474,591
Stars
540
Stars per 1k downloads
0.03
• 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
494,497
Month daily avg
549,153
Momentum
-10.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
MIT License
• 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
250 days ago
Total releases
39
Releases/year
3.0
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
15
Monthly downloads
16,474,591
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
34
 
Issue Burden
14.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
75.0%
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 334.0K
macOS 1.2K
Windows 623

Python Versions

3.12
38.8% 127.4K
3.10
28.7% 94.3K
3.11
17.1% 56.0K
3.13
10.2% 33.5K
3.14
5.1% 16.8K

Top Countries

1. US US
273.8K
2. IN IN
5.6K
3. AU AU
5.2K
4. KR KR
4.5K
5. SG SG
4.2K
6. DE DE
3.7K
7. JP JP
3.6K
8. NL NL
3.6K
9. CA CA
3.6K
10. IE IE
3.2K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
June 23, 2013
Last Release
8 months ago
Last Commit
8 months ago
Latest Version
0.5.8
Total Releases
39
Contributors
15
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
Timo Furrer
Python Versions
3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 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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