theme_brand_thematic: Create a thematic theme using brand colors

In brand.yml: Unified Branding with a Simple YAML File

Create a thematic theme using brand colors

Description

Apply thematic styling using explicit colors or by automatically extracting colors from a brand.yml file. This function sets global theming for base R graphics.

Usage

theme_brand_thematic(
  brand = NULL,
  background = NULL,
  foreground = NULL,
  accent = NULL,
  ...
)

theme_brand_thematic_on(
  brand = NULL,
  background = NULL,
  foreground = NULL,
  accent = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

brand	One of: NULL (default): Automatically detect and read a _brand.yml file A path to a brand.yml file or directory containing _brand.yml A brand object (as returned by read_brand_yml() or as_brand_yml()) FALSE: Don't use a brand file; explicit colors must be provided
background	The background color, defaults to brand.color.background. If provided directly, this value can be a valid R color or the name of a color in brand.color or brand.color.palette.
foreground	The foreground color, defaults to brand.color.foreground. If provided directly, this value can be a valid R color or the name of a color in brand.color or brand.color.palette.
accent	The accent color, defaults to brand.color.primary or brand.color.palette.accent. If provided directly, this value can be a valid R color or the name of a color in brand.color or brand.color.palette.
...	Additional arguments passed to thematic::thematic_theme() or thematic::thematic_on().

Value

thematic_theme() returns a theme object as a list (which can be activated with thematic_with_theme() or thematic_set_theme()).

thematic_on(), thematic_off(), and thematic_shiny() all return the previous global theme.

Functions

• theme_brand_thematic(): brand.yml wrapper for thematic::thematic_theme()

• theme_brand_thematic_on(): brand.yml wrapper for thematic::thematic_theme()

See Also

See the "Branded Theming" section of theme_brand_ggplot2() for more details on how the brand argument works.

Other branded theming functions: theme_brand_flextable(), theme_brand_ggplot2(), theme_brand_gt(), theme_brand_plotly()

Examples

brand <- as_brand_yml('
color:
  palette:
    black: "#1A1A1A"
    white: "#F9F9F9"
    orange: "#FF6F20"
  foreground: black
  background: white
  primary: orange')


library(ggplot2)

thematic::thematic_with_theme(theme_brand_thematic(brand), {
  ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat, price)) +
    geom_point()
})

brand.yml documentation built on Nov. 6, 2025, 5:06 p.m.