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Color Palettes Used in NEST

Source: R/color_palette.R
color_palette.Rd

[Stable]

A standardized color palette to be used for all plots within the NEST project.

Usage

color_palette(n = 10, palette = "nest")

Arguments

n

(numeric value)
The number of colors to be returned from the color palettes. Please note the colors will be repeated after a certain numerical limit per palette:

  • nest 96 colors

  • stream 38 colors

  • viridis 49 colors

  • accessible 18 colors

palette

(character value)
The name of a palette supported by this function

  • nest A color palette developed by the NEST team representing colors in the NEST logo.

  • stream A color palette proposed by the stream documentation of stream version 2_05

  • viridis A color palette provided by the viridis::plasma function.

  • accessible A color palette consisting of accessible colors for those with color blindness.

Value

A list of hex color code

Examples

library(grid)

plot_pal <- function(x) {
  grid.newpage()
  pushViewport(plotViewport(rep(1, 4)))
  pushViewport(viewport(layout = grid.layout(1, ncol = length(x))))
  for (i in seq_along(x)) {
    grid.rect(
      gp = gpar(fill = x[i], col = NA),
      vp = viewport(layout.pos.col = i, layout.pos.row = 1)
    )
  }
}

plot_pal(color_palette(n = 10, palette = "nest"))


plot_pal(color_palette(n = 10, palette = "stream"))


plot_pal(color_palette(n = 10, palette = "viridis"))


plot_pal(color_palette(n = 10, palette = "accessible"))