pals (version 1.10)

Color Palettes, Colormaps, and Tools to Evaluate Them

Description

A comprehensive collection of color palettes, colormaps, and tools to evaluate them. See Kovesi (2015) .

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install.packages('pals')

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Version

1.10

License

MIT + file LICENSE

Maintainer

Kevin Wright

Last Published

March 7th, 2025

Functions in pals (1.10)

pal.heatmap

Show a palette/colormap with a random heatmap

pal.compress

Compress a colormap function to fewer colors

pal.dist

Measure the pointwise distance between two palettes

pal.csf

Show a colormap with a Campbell-Robson Contrast Sensitivity Chart

pal.cluster

Show a palette with hierarchical clustering

pal.cube

Show one palette/colormap in three dimensional RGB or LUV space

pal.heatmap2

Show palettes/colormaps with comparison heatmaps

pal.zcurve

Show a colormap with a space-filling z-curve

pal.test

Show a colormap with multiple images

pal.map

Show a palette using a map of U.S. counties

pal.volcano

Show a colormap with a surface of volcano elevation

pals

pals: A package for comprehensive palettes and palette evaluation tools

pals.maxcolors

Pals max colors

penobscot

Seismic data horizon offshore of Nova Scotia.

pal.maxdist

Measure the maximum distance between two palettes

pal.safe

Show a palette/colormap for black/white and colorblind safety

pal.sineramp

Show a colormap with a sineramp

pal.scatter

Show a colormap with a scatterplot

bivariate

Bivariate palettes

pal.channels

Show the red, green, blue, gray amount in colors of a palette

continuous

Miscellaneous colormaps

matplotlib

Matplotlib colormaps

niccoli

Matteo Niccoli's perceptually uniform colormaps

brewer

ColorBrewer palettes

ocean

Oceanography perceptually uniform colormaps

pal.bands

Show palettes and colormaps as colored bands

kovesi

Peter Kovesi's perceptually uniform colormaps

discrete

Discrete palettes