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colour

Python color representations manipulation library (RGB, HSL, web, ...)
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

colour has 1.9M monthly downloads and 331 GitHub stars. Version 0.1.5, first published in 2013.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2017.

It is used by 170 tracked packages, including mitreattack-python, styleframe and dtreeviz.

Downloads
Day
62.9K
Week
472.9K
Month
1.9M
Stars
331
Forks
41
Issues
25
Version
0.1.5

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
51
Adoption
80
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3151 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,866,780
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
1,866,780
Stars
331
Stars per 1k downloads
0.18
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
67,564
Month daily avg
62,226
Momentum
+8.6%
((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
BSD 3-Clause 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
3151 days ago
Total releases
10
Releases/year
0.8
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
9
Monthly downloads
1,866,780
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
49
 
Issue Burden
75.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
22.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 34.8K
Windows 308
macOS 188

Python Versions

3.10
33.6% 11.0K
3.12
27.7% 9.1K
3.11
22.7% 7.5K
3.9
8.5% 2.8K
3.14
7.4% 2.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
24.3K
2. NL NL
3.7K
3. AE AE
1.1K
4. IE IE
1.1K
5. DE DE
762
6. SG SG
720
7. JP JP
568
8. GB GB
565
9. IM IM
440
10. AU AU
404

Package Information

License
BSD 3-Clause License
First Release
April 14, 2013
Last Release
8 years ago
Last Commit
8 years ago
Latest Version
0.1.5
Total Releases
10
Contributors
9
Open PRs
10
Archived
No
Author
Valentin LAB
Python Versions
2 2.7 3 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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