How ink-gradient is used
ink-gradient joined the catalog on its public numbers (86,655 downloads a week on npm and 174 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 13 public GitHub projects of our scan, 2 of them set up for AI coding agents. Projects that use it most often also use Ink (100.0%), chalk (76.9%), ink-select-input (69.2%).
ink-gradient popularity over time
Gid Score 28: downloads 41, use in agent projects 21, GitHub stars 0, downloads trend 57 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with ink-gradient
| Ink | 100.0% of ink-gradient projects · 258.7× more than average |
|---|---|
| chalk | 76.9% of ink-gradient projects · 26.7× more than average |
| ink-select-input | 69.2% of ink-gradient projects · 1074.5× more than average |
| Express | 61.5% of ink-gradient projects · 9.1× more than average |
| ink-testing-library | 61.5% of ink-gradient projects · 1273.4× more than average |
| Prettier | 69.2% of ink-gradient projects · 3.3× more than average |
| React | 84.6% of ink-gradient projects · 2.6× more than average |
| Babel (JavaScript) | 53.8% of ink-gradient projects · 14.5× more than average |
How ink-gradient is funded
Open Collective: Sindre Sorhus
| Received, last 12 months | $8,687 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $7,233 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $16,650 |
| Raised since the start | $124,128 · $107,478 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $550 · $550 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -22% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 20 |
Top company backers all time, 25 companies in total
| Retool | $30,000 since Jan 2021 |
|---|---|
| Gitpod | $15,500 since Jul 2021 |
| Strapi | $7,420 since May 2021 |
| Frontend Masters | $5,000 since Aug 2022 |
| GatsbyJS | $4,500 since Oct 2019 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Mar 2019. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 26 more tools in our catalog: chalk, ora, execa, boxen, open, p-limit and others.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @sindresorhus | 186 current sponsors |
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GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay. Sponsors of a person back all of their work, which here includes chalk, ora, file-type.
Ways to fund ink-gradient
GitHub Sponsors Open Collective Buy Me a Coffee Own page
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install ink-gradient |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (13) |
| Example projects | ARBProtocol/solana-jupiter-bot, harizibamv/zencoder, Minh-Tam-Solution/tinysdlc, guten-tag-100/solana-jupiter-bot, Sir-chawakorn/sanook-cli |
Alternatives to ink-gradient
In our scan, none of the most used tools in Dev workflow and config does the same job as ink-gradient: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
More in Dev workflow and config: dotenv Husky python-dotenv lint-staged concurrently Rich Pydantic Settings cross-env