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Color Schemes

colorschemes.Rd

17 color schemes suitable for people with deficient or anomalous red-green vision.

Usage

colorschemes

Format

  • BrowntoBlue.10

  • BrowntoBlue.12

  • BluetoDarkOrange.12

  • BluetoDarkOrange.18

  • DarkRedtoBlue.12

  • DarkRedtoBlue.18

  • BluetoGreen.14

  • BluetoGray.8

  • BluetoOrangeRed.14

  • BluetoOrange.10

  • BluetoOrange.12

  • BluetoOrange.8

  • LightBluetoDarkBlue.10

  • LightBluetoDarkBlue.7

  • Categorical.12

  • GreentoMagenta.16

  • SteppedSequential.5

Author

Scott Waichler <scott.waichler@pnl.gov>

References

Light A, Bartlein PJ (2004). The End of the Rainbow? Color Schemes for Improved Data Graphics. EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 85(40), 385. doi:10.1029/2004eo400002

Examples

pal <- function(col, ...)
  image(seq_along(col), 1, matrix(seq_along(col), ncol = 1),
  col = col, axes = FALSE, ...)

opar <- par(mar = c(1, 2, 1, 1))
layout(matrix(1:6, ncol = 1))
pal(colorschemes$BrowntoBlue.10, main = "Brown to Blue (10)")
pal(colorRampPalette(colorschemes$BrowntoBlue.10, space = "Lab")(100),
  main = "Brown to Blue Ramp")
pal(dichromat(colorschemes$BrowntoBlue.10),
  main = "Brown to Blue (10) -- deuteranopia")
pal(colorschemes$Categorical.12, main = "Categorical (12)")
pal(dichromat(colorschemes$Categorical.12),
  main = "Categorical (12) -- deuteranopia")
pal(dichromat(colorschemes$Categorical.12, "protan"),
  main = "Categorical (12) -- protanopia")
par(opar)