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alan-turing-institute

distinctipy

A lightweight package for generating visually distinct colours.
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Downloads
Day
5.6K
Week
42.6K
Month
187.6K
Stars
291
Forks
16
Issues
12
Version
1.3.4

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
46
Adoption
62
Community
20
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
547 days ago
Monthly downloads
187,573
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
187,573
Stars
291
Stars per 1k downloads
1.55
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
6,087
Month daily avg
6,252
Momentum
-2.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
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
908 days ago
Total releases
17
Releases/year
2.4
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
187,573
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
29
 
Issue Burden
41.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
56.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
360d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 2.4K
Windows 98
macOS 67

Python Versions

3.11
31.6% 773
3.12
31.0% 760
3.14
21.4% 524
3.10
11.4% 279
3.13
4.6% 112

Top Countries

1. US US
2.1K
2. CH CH
153
3. SG SG
71
4. CN CN
24
5. FI FI
24
6. AU AU
17
7. GB GB
17
8. PL PL
16
9. AT AT
14
10. NL NL
9
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
May 24, 2019
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
1.3.4
Total Releases
17
Contributors
9
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Keywords
color colour palette colormap colorblind colourblind
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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