unicol (version 0.3.0)

mpg: Default colors of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG), Germany

Description

mpg provides the default color palette of the Max Planck Society, Germany.

Usage

mpg

Value

A named vector of colors (HEX/HTML codes of type character).

Format

An object of class character of length 5.

Author

unicol, 2022-12-11.

Details

The two primary colors are at the extreme positions of mpg:

1. MPG green (at mpg[1]): Defined as Pantone 328, CMYK 100/0/57/30, or RGB 17/102/86.

2. MPG grey (at mpg[5]): Defined as Pantone 427, CMYK 0/0/6/15, or RGB 221/222/214.

At mpg[3], the color "white" was added to enable symmetrical color gradients. See examples and the ac and usecol functions for creating color gradients.

See Also

seecol for viewing and comparing color palettes; usecol for using color palettes; simcol for finding similar colors; newpal for defining new color palettes; grepal for finding named colors.

Examples

mpg
unikn::seecol(mpg, main = "Colors of the Max Planck Society")  # view color palette 
unikn::demopal(mpg, type = 1, main = "Using the MPG colors")

# Extended version:
mpg_11 <- unikn::usecol(c(mpg, "black"), n = 11)
unikn::demopal(mpg_11, type = 4, seed = 1, main = "An extended MPG palette")