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Polychrome (version 1.6.2)

Qualitative Palettes with Many Colors

Description

Tools for creating, viewing, and assessing qualitative palettes with many (20-30 or more) colors. See Coombes and colleagues (2019) .

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install.packages('Polychrome')

Monthly Downloads

4,621

Version

1.6.2

License

Apache License (== 2.0)

Maintainer

Kevin Coombes

Last Published

September 24th, 2026

Functions in Polychrome (1.6.2)

invertColors

Inverting the Plot Device Color Scheme
sortByHue

Sorting Palettes
isccNames

Standard Names for Colors
distances

Visualizing Color Palettes
getLUV

Get the L*u*v* coordinates of the colors
sky-colors

The 32-color Glasbye palette
palettes

Polychrome Color Palettes
memberPlot

Membership Plots
colorDeficit

Converting Colors to Illustrate Color Deficient Vision
createPalette

Creating New Color Palettes
xkcdNames

Consensus Names for Colors
alphabet

A 26-Color Palette
iscc

Color Names From the Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC)
colorsafe

A 10-Color Palette Distinguishable By COlor-Deficit Individuals
glasbey

The 32-color Glasbye palette
Dark24

Light and Dark 24-Color Palettes
palette.viewers

Visualizing Color Palettes
palette36

A 36-Color Palette
xkcd

Color Names From the Color Survey by Randall Munroe of XKCD