splitComp: Split Complementary Color Scheme

In colortools: Tools for colors in a Hue-Saturation-Value (HSV) color model

Description

The split-complementary color scheme is a variation of the complementary color scheme. It uses the two colors adjacent to its complement.

Usage

  splitComp(color, plot = TRUE, bg = "white",
    labcol = NULL, cex = 0.8, title = TRUE)

Arguments

color	an R color name of a color in hexadecimal notation
plot	logical value indicating whether to plot a color wheel with the generated scheme
bg	background color of the plot. Used only when plot=TRUE
labcol	color for the labels (i.e. names of the colors). Used only when plot=TRUE
cex	numeric value indicating the character expansion of the labels
title	logical value indicating whether to display a title in the plot. Unsed only when plot=TRUE

Details

This color scheme has the same strong visual contrast as the complementary scheme, but it is supposed to have less tension.

Value

A character vector with the given color and the split-complementary colors in hexadecimal notation

Author(s)

Gaston Sanchez

See Also

complementary

Examples

# split-complementary colors of 'tomato' (no plot)
splitComp("tomato", plot = FALSE)

# split-complementary colors of 'tomato' (with dark gray background)
splitComp("tomato", bg = "gray40")

colortools documentation built on May 2, 2019, 2:10 p.m.