https://github.com/kwstat/pals

Color Palettes and Palette Evaluation Tools
https://github.com/kwstat/pals

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Color Palettes and Palette Evaluation Tools

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/kwstat/pals
• Owner: kwstat
• License: other
• Created: 2016-09-26T13:50:11.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-07-15T17:23:03.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-04T01:19:39.317Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: rstats
• Language: HTML
• Homepage: https://kwstat.github.io/pals/
• Size: 24.3 MB
• Stars: 81
• Watchers: 7
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: NEWS.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# pals 

[![CRAN_Status_Badge](http://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/pals)](https://cran.r-project.org/package=pals)

[![CRAN_Downloads](https://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/badges/pals)](https://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/badges/pals)

Homepage: https://kwstat.github.io/pals

Repository: https://github.com/kwstat/pals

Color Palettes, Colormaps, and Tools to Evaluate Them

## Key features

* Extensive collection of colormaps and palettes.

* Multiple tools to evaluate colormaps.

* Conscientious memory use.

* Consistency: All palettes and colormaps are _functions_, with all lower-case names.

## Installation

```R

# Install the released version from CRAN:

install.packages("pals")

# Install the development version from GitHub:

# install.packages("devtools")

devtools::install_github("kwstat/pals")

```

## Usage

Tools for testing colormap and palette effectiveness.

![parula](man/figures/test_colormap.png)

![alphabet](man/figures/test_palette.png)

Catalog of colormaps and palettes included in the package.

![pals_catalog](man/figures/pals_catalog.png)

![pals_bivariate](man/figures/pals_bivariate.png)

## Similar packages

See the paletteer package https://github.com/EmilHvitfeldt/paletteer