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Polychrome (version 1.5.4)

Qualitative Palettes with Many Colors

Description

Tools for creating, viewing, and assessing qualitative palettes with many (20-30 or more) colors. See Coombes and colleagues (2019) .

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install.packages('Polychrome')

Monthly Downloads

3,034

Version

1.5.4

License

Apache License (== 2.0)

Maintainer

Kevin Coombes

Last Published

April 6th, 2025

Functions in Polychrome (1.5.4)

palettes

Polychrome Color Palettes
sortByHue

Sorting Palettes
sky-colors

The 32-color Glasbye palette
glasbey

The 32-color Glasbye palette
alphabet

A 26-Color Palette
invertColors

Inverting the Plot Device Color Scheme
createPalette

Creating New Color Palettes
colorDeficit

Converting Colors to Illustrate Color Deficient Vision
getLUV

Get the L*u*v* coordinates of the colors
palette.viewers

Visualizing Color Palettes
Dark24

Light and Dark 24-Color Palettes
iscc

Color Names From the Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC)
isccNames

Standard Names for Colors
distances

Visualizing Color Palettes
memberPlot

Membership Plots
colorsafe

A 10-Color Palette Distinguishable By COlor-Deficit Individuals
palette36

A 36-Color Palette