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Collecting qualitative colour palettes


DATE: 2021-08-21

AUTHOR: John L. Godlee



I have been curating a personal R package[1] for a few months now, to try and organise the many snippets of R code that I tend to reuse in different projects. The package isn't on CRAN, but it is on Github for anybody interested. One of the functions I keep is essentially a list of qualitative colour palettes. Some are my original creations, but most are lifted from other packages, or examples I've seen somewhere online. It's incredibly difficult to come up with categorical colour schemes for more than about five categories, and it can be frustrating trying to find colour combinations which maximise readability across a range of colour-blindness conditions, and which look good.


1:


These colours come from CARTOColors[2]:


2: https://carto.com/carto-colors/


Antique:


antique


Bold:


bold


Pastel:


pastel


Prism:


prism


Safe:


safe


Vivid:


vivid


These colours come from ColorBrewer[3]:


3: https://colorbrewer2.org


Dark2:


dark2


Set1:


set1


Set3:


set3


These colours come from Anton Tsitsulin's Optimal qualitative colour palettes[4]:


4: http://tsitsul.in/blog/coloropt/


Bright6:


bright6


Dark6:


dark6


Fancy6:


fancy6


Normal6:


normal6


Normal12:


normal12


Tarnish6:


tarnish6


These are from Python's Seaborn colours[5]:


5: https://seaborn.pydata.org/


Colorblind:


colorblind


Deep:


deep


Muted:


muted


Default:


default


This is the Solarized accent colours[6]:


6: https://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/


solarized accent


And these are my own colours:


Movie:


movie


Highlighter:


highlighter


The function, in case you want to just copy the hex codes:


#' Qualitative colour palettes
#' @return named list of qualitative colour palettes as vectors of hex-codes
#'
#' @details The \code{color_brewer_*} palettes come from \url{https://colorbrewer2.org/}.
#'     The \code{seaborn_*} palettes come from \url{https://seaborn.pydata.org/}.
#'     The \code{carto_colors_*} palettes come from \url{https://carto.com/carto-colors/}.
#'     The \code{solarized_accent} palette comes from \url{https://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/}.
#'     The \code{coloropt_*} palettes come from \url{http://tsitsul.in/blog/coloropt/}.
#'     Other palettes are original.
#'
#' @examples
#' qualPal()[[1]]
#'
#' @export
#'
qualPal <- function() {
  list(
    movie_4 = c("#117733", "#b58900", "#855C75", "#ED645A"),
    highlighter = c("#bbdf20", "#20dfa3", "#4420df", "#df205c"),
    color_brewer_set1 = c("#e41a1c", "#377eb8", "#4daf4a", "#984ea3", "#ff7f00", "#ffff33", "#a65628", "#f781bf", "#999999"),
    color_brewer_dark2 = c("#1b9e77", "#d95f02", "#7570b3", "#e7298a", "#66a61e", "#e6ab02", "#a6761d", "#666666"),
    color_brewer_set3 = c("#8dd3c7", "#ffffb3", "#bebada", "#fb8072", "#80b1d3", "#fdb462", "#b3de69", "#fccde5"),
    seaborn_default = c("#1F77B4", "#FF7F0E", "#2CA02C", "#D62728", "#9467BD", "#8C564B", "#E377C2", "#7F7F7F", "#BCBD22", "#17BECF"),
    seaborn_muted = c("#4878D0", "#EE854A", "#6ACC64", "#D65F5F", "#956CB4", "#8C613C", "#DC7EC0", "#797979", "#D5BB67", "#82C6E2"),
    seaborn_colorblind = c("#0173B2", "#DE8F05", "#029E73", "#D55E00", "#CC78BC", "#CA9161", "#FBAFE4", "#949494", "#ECE133", "#58B4E9"),
    seaborn_deep = c("#4C72B0", "#DD8452", "#55A868", "#C44E52", "#8172B3", "#937860", "#DA8BC3", "#8C8C8C", "#CCB974", "#64B5CD"),
    solarized_accent = c("#b58900", "#cb4b16", "#dc322f", "#d33682", "#6c71c4", "#268bd2", "#2aa198", "#859900"),
    carto_colors_antique = c("#855C75", "#D9AF6B", "#AF6458", "#736F4C", "#526A83", "#625377", "#68855C", "#9C9C5E", "#A06177", "#8C785D", "#467378", "#7C7C7C"),
    carto_colors_bold = c("#7F3C8D", "#11A579", "#3969AC", "#F2B701", "#E73F74", "#80BA5A", "#E68310", "#008695", "#CF1C90", "#f97b72", "#4b4b8f", "#A5AA99"),
    carto_colors_pastel = c("#66C5CC", "#F6CF71", "#F89C74", "#DCB0F2", "#87C55F", "#9EB9F3", "#FE88B1", "#C9DB74", "#8BE0A4", "#B497E7", "#D3B484", "#B3B3B3"),
    carto_colors_prism = c("#5F4690", "#1D6996", "#38A6A5", "#0F8554", "#73AF48", "#EDAD08", "#E17C05", "#CC503E", "#94346E", "#6F4070", "#994E95", "#666666"),
    carto_colors_safe = c("#88CCEE", "#CC6677", "#DDCC77", "#117733", "#332288", "#AA4499", "#44AA99", "#999933", "#882255", "#661100", "#6699CC", "#888888"),
    carto_colors_vivid = c("#E58606", "#5D69B1", "#52BCA3", "#99C945", "#CC61B0", "#24796C", "#DAA51B", "#2F8AC4", "#764E9F", "#ED645A", "#CC3A8E", "#A5AA99"),
    coloropt_normal6 = c("#4053D3", "#DDB310", "#B51D14", "#00BEFF", "#FB49B0", "#00B25D", "#CACACA"),
    coloropt_bright6 = c("#EFE645", "#E935A1", "#00E3FF", "#E1562C", "#537EFF", "#00CB85", "#EEEEEE"),
    coloropt_dark6 = c("#005900", "#000078", "#490D00", "#8A034F", "#005A8A", "#443500", "#585858"),
    coloropt_fancy6 = c("#56641A", "#C0AFFB", "#E6A176", "#00678A", "#984464", "#5ECCAB", "#CDCDCD"),
    coloropt_tarnish6 = c("#274D52", "#C7A2A6", "#818B70", "#604E3C", "#8C9FB7", "#796880", "#C0C0C0"),
    coloropt_normal12 = c("#EBAC23", "#B80058", "#008CF9", "#006E00", "#00BBAD", "#D163E6", "#B24502", "#FF9287", "#5954D6", "#00C6F8", "#878500", "#00A76C", "#BDBDBD")
  )
}

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