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Fiscal vs nmfspalette
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Fiscal and nmfspalette — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Fiscal vs nmfspalette: at a glance
What is Fiscal?
UK income tax calculations reach CRAN, then go quiet behind pointer-only release notes.
Fiscal computes UK income tax. It reached its 1.0.0 milestone in March 2026 and shipped two patch releases in the fortnight after, then stopped. The GitHub release bodies carry no changelog of their own: each one points at the NEWS file and the CRAN page, so the feed shows cadence but not content.
What is nmfspalette?
A NOAA Fisheries colour palette that ships when the branding guide changes
nmfspalette supplies the NOAA Fisheries colour palette as an R package, for figures that have to follow agency branding. Its five releases track the branding guide rather than any software need: a first version in 2020, a breaking switch to CSS-compatible colour names in 2021, an update to the 2022 branding colours applied in July 2023, and a 2024 release whose stated purpose is to mint a DOI. There is no functionality here beyond supplying colours.
Fiscal vs nmfspalette: editorial side-by-side
Fiscal
0.0INFRA · APIS
UK income tax calculations reach CRAN, then go quiet behind pointer-only release notes.
◆ Current state
Fiscal computes UK income tax. It reached its 1.0.0 milestone in March 2026 and shipped two patch releases in the fortnight after, then stopped. The GitHub release bodies carry no changelog of their own: each one points at the NEWS file and the CRAN page, so the feed shows cadence but not content.
◆ Where it's heading
Three releases in a fifteen-day window reads as post-publication cleanup rather than a development push, which is the normal shape after a first CRAN acceptance. Because every body is the same boilerplate, direction has to be read from the tags alone, and the tags say only that two patches followed the 1.0.0 line.
◆ Prediction
The most likely next release is an annual one tracking a new UK tax year's rates and thresholds. The release notes as published give no evidence for anything beyond that.
nmfspalette
0.0INFRA · APIS
A NOAA Fisheries colour palette that ships when the branding guide changes
◆ Current state
nmfspalette supplies the NOAA Fisheries colour palette as an R package, for figures that have to follow agency branding. Its five releases track the branding guide rather than any software need: a first version in 2020, a breaking switch to CSS-compatible colour names in 2021, an update to the 2022 branding colours applied in July 2023, and a 2024 release whose stated purpose is to mint a DOI. There is no functionality here beyond supplying colours.
◆ Where it's heading
This is a package whose release schedule is set outside the project — it changes when NOAA publishes new branding, and the 2022 guide took until 2023 to land here. The one release with real user impact was the 2021 breaking change, which replaced the branding guide's colour names with CSS-compatible ones and would have broken any code naming a colour directly. The DOI release indicates the maintainer expects it to be cited in publications, which is the natural end state for an agency-standard palette.
◆ Prediction
Expect the next release when NOAA Fisheries revises its branding guide again; on the 2022-to-2023 precedent, it will follow the guide by several months.
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Recent activity from Fiscal and nmfspalette
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 4mo agoFiscalFiscal 1.0.2
- 4mo agoFiscalFiscal 1.0.1
- 5mo agoFiscalFiscal reaches CRAN with its first public release ⚡
- 2y agonmfspaletteMinor updates and DOI
- 2y agonmfspaletteUpdate to new 2022 colors
- 5y agonmfspaletteRelease with CSS compatible names
- 5y agonmfspaletteRelease update to work with r-cmd-check
- 5y agonmfspaletteThe first release of nmfspalette
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Fiscal and nmfspalette?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Fiscal and nmfspalette are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Fiscal better than nmfspalette?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Fiscal and nmfspalette are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Fiscal?
Top Fiscal alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Fiscal alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/fiscal for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to nmfspalette?
Top nmfspalette alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "nmfspalette alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/nmfspalette for the full list with editorial commentary on each.