Create a color palette

Uses colortools package (and possibly scales) to easily create a color palette based on a initial input color.

create_palette(colorhex, name = NULL, toHCL = FALSE, plot = FALSE, alpha = 1)

Arguments

colorhex	Hexadecimal value of color or an R color name.
name	optional name of color
toHCL	Convert colors to hcl. Defaults to FALSE.
plot	Plot the results. Defaults to FALSE.
alpha	Transparency. Takes values from 0 to 1. Default is 1.

Value

A list of colors

Details

Will return complementary, analogous/adjacent, split complementary, triadic, square and tetradic color values relative to the initial color. Note that if you want sequential, qualitative, diverging etc., other packages like RColorBrewer, colorspace, and colortools will do that for you.

Examples

library(visibly)
create_palette(colorhex = '#ff5500', name='orange')
#> $orange
#> [1] "#ff5500"
#> 
#> $complementary
#> [1] "#FF5500" "#00AAFF"
#> 
#> $analogous
#> [1] "#FF5500" "#FFD500" "#FF002B"
#> 
#> $split_complentary
#> [1] "#FF5500" "#00FFD4" "#002BFF"
#> 
#> $triadic
#> [1] "#FF5500" "#00FF55" "#5500FF"
#> 
#> $square
#> [1] "#FF5500" "#2AFF00" "#00AAFF" "#D500FF"
#> 
#> $tetradic
#> [1] "#FF5500" "#AAFF00" "#00AAFF" "#5500FF"
#> 
create_palette(colorhex = '#ff5500', name='orange', alpha=.5)
#> $orange
#> [1] "#FF550080"
#> 
#> $complementary
#> [1] "#FF550080" "#00AAFF80"
#> 
#> $analogous
#> [1] "#FF550080" "#FFD50080" "#FF002B80"
#> 
#> $split_complentary
#> [1] "#FF550080" "#00FFD480" "#002BFF80"
#> 
#> $triadic
#> [1] "#FF550080" "#00FF5580" "#5500FF80"
#> 
#> $square
#> [1] "#FF550080" "#2AFF0080" "#00AAFF80" "#D500FF80"
#> 
#> $tetradic
#> [1] "#FF550080" "#AAFF0080" "#00AAFF80" "#5500FF80"
#>