Viewing Palettes

Install from CRAN using:

 install.packages("PrettyCols")

Or install the development version using:

remotes::install_github("nrennie/PrettyCols")

Then load into R:

 library(PrettyCols)

To see the names of all available palettes, run:

 names(PrettyColsPalettes)
 #> [1] "Blues" "Purples" "Tangerines" "Greens" 
 #> [5] "Pinks" "Roses" "Teals" "Yellows" 
 #> [9] "Reds" "Greys" "Aubergines" "Browns" 
 #> [13] "PurpleGreens" "PinkGreens" "TangerineBlues" "PurpleTangerines"
 #> [17] "PurplePinks" "TealGreens" "PurpleYellows" "RedBlues" 
 #> [21] "Bold" "Dark" "Light" "Neon" 
 #> [25] "Summer" "Autumn" "Winter" "Rainbow" 
 #> [29] "Beach" "Fun" "Sea" "Bright" 
 #> [33] "Relax" "Lucent" "Lively" "Joyful" 
 #> [37] "Coast" "Sea" "Peppers" "Disco"

To see the colours in a specific palette, use the prettycols() function:

 prettycols("Tangerines")

By default a discrete palette showing all colours is displayed. Setting type = "continuous" displays a continuous palette, changing n changes the number of colours, and switching direction = -1 reverses the order of colours. For example:

 prettycols("Tangerines", n = 50, type = "continuous", direction = -1)

To see all available palettes, run:

 view_all_palettes()

or,

 view_all_palettes(type == "all")

Palettes are categorised into three types:

Sequential (seq),
Diverging (div),
Qualitative (qual).

Palettes can be viewed by type. For example, to see all sequential colour palettes, run:

 view_all_palettes(type = "seq")