PyRank
colour-science

colour-science

Colour Science for Python
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
19.8K
Week
122.8K
Month
453.4K
Stars
2.6K
Forks
289
Issues
80
Version
0.4.7

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
72
Adoption
86
Community
70
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
22 days ago
Monthly downloads
453,373
• 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
453,373
Stars
2,583
Stars per 1k downloads
5.70
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
17,538
Month daily avg
15,112
Momentum
+16.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<3.15,>=3.11
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
BSD-3-Clause
• 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
167 days ago
Total releases
25
Releases/year
2.1
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
53
Monthly downloads
453,373
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
81
 
Issue Burden
31.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
100.7
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
18.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
145d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 7.3K
Windows 4.9K
macOS 448

Python Versions

3.12
61.7% 7.6K
3.13
14.6% 1.8K
3.11
9.3% 1.2K
3.14
8.0% 996
3.10
6.4% 794

Top Countries

1. US US
5.1K
2. JP JP
582
3. SG SG
573
4. DE DE
438
5. KR KR
414
6. GB GB
384
7. CN CN
366
8. CA CA
353
9. RO RO
344
10. FR FR
278

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
September 2, 2014
Last Release
5 months ago
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Latest Version
0.4.7
Total Releases
25
Contributors
53
Open PRs
10
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
color color-science color-space color-spaces colorspace colorspaces colour colour-science colour-space colour-spaces colourspace colourspaces data dataset datasets python spectral-data spectral-dataset spectral-datasets
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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