How Colour is used
Colour joined the catalog on its public numbers (98,163 downloads a week on PyPI and 2,670 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 5 public GitHub projects of our scan, 0 of them set up for AI coding agents. Projects that use it most often also use pandas (100.0%), einops (80.0%), Jinja2 (80.0%).
Colour popularity over time
Gid Score 33: downloads 42, use in agent projects 7, GitHub stars 28, downloads trend 63 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Colour
| pandas | 100.0% of Colour projects · 23.3× more than average |
|---|---|
| einops | 80.0% of Colour projects · 496.6× more than average |
| Jinja2 | 80.0% of Colour projects · 36.8× more than average |
| Matplotlib | 80.0% of Colour projects · 29.7× more than average |
| NumPy | 80.0% of Colour projects · 13.7× more than average |
| OpenCV Python | 80.0% of Colour projects · 110.4× more than average |
| Pillow | 80.0% of Colour projects · 20.9× more than average |
| Pydantic | 80.0% of Colour projects · 9.3× more than average |
How Colour is funded
Open Collective: Colour Science
| Received, last 12 months | $934 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $1,331 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $7,903 |
| Raised since the start | $14,825 · $6,921 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $87 · $98 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -39% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 6 |
Top company backers all time
| Makeup Land | $4,300 since Jul 2020 |
|---|---|
| Colorhythm | $1,500 since Mar 2024 |
| CAVE Academy | $1,050 since Oct 2020 |
| Trust My Paper | $100 since Jun 2021 |
| Unlimited Marketing | $1 since Aug 2026 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Oct 2019. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
Ways to fund Colour
Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install colour-science |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (5) |
| Example projects | Luffy03/Large-Scale-Medical, Luffy03/FreeTumor |
Alternatives to Colour
In our scan, none of the most used tools in Utilities does the same job as Colour: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
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