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alan-turing-institute

distinctipy

A lightweight package for generating visually distinct colours.
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Monthly downloads
165.7K
Weekly downloads
39.9K
GitHub stars
296

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
1.3.4
Requires Python
>=3.8
Licence
MIT License
Last Release
2 years ago
First Release
May 24, 2019
Total Releases
17
Python Versions
3
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details

The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
46
Adoption
72
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
648 days ago
Monthly downloads
165,665
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
165,665
Stars
296
Stars per 1k downloads
1.79
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
5,694
Month daily avg
5,522
Momentum
+3.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
• Legacy
Supports 3.10 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
1009 days ago
Total releases
17
Releases/year
2.3
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
10
Monthly downloads
165,665
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
40.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
62.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
360d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 
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Downloads by OS

Linux 2.9K
Windows 238
macOS 197

Python Versions

3.12
45.5% 1.4K
3.14
24.4% 745
3.13
19.4% 593
3.11
5.6% 170
3.10
5.0% 153

Top Countries

1. US US
2.7K
2. DE DE
462
3. FI FI
46
4. SG SG
33
5. CH CH
19
6. PT PT
15
7. CN CN
14
8. GB GB
13
9. IN IN
11
10. ES ES
10

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

1
12 optional dependencies
  • black==22.6.0[tests]
    extra == "tests"
  • codecov>=2.0.15[tests]
    extra == "tests"
  • coverage>=5.3.1[tests]
    extra == "tests"
  • flake8==4.0.1[tests]
    extra == "tests"
  • ipython>=7.34.0[docs]
    extra == "docs"
  • isort==5.10.1[tests]
    extra == "tests"
  • matplotlib>=3.1.0[extras]
    extra == "extras"
  • nbsphinx>=0.8.0[docs]
    extra == "docs"
  • pandas>=0.24.2[extras]
    extra == "extras"
  • pytest>=4.6.0[tests]
    extra == "tests"
  • pytest-cov>=2.9.0[tests]
    extra == "tests"
  • sphinx-rtd-theme>=0.2.3[docs]
    extra == "docs"

Used By

50
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Repository details

Forks
16
Issues
12
Last Commit
1 year ago
Contributors
10
Open PRs
1
Archived
No

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
color colour palette colormap colorblind colourblind
Sources and methodology