triadic: Triadic Color Scheme

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

Description

Triadic color schemes use colors that are evenly spaced around the color wheel.

Usage

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

Arguments

color	an R color name or 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. Used only when plot=TRUE

Details

The triadic colors are obtained following a color wheel with 12 colors, each one spaced at 30 degrees from each other. Triadic color schemes tend to be quite vibrant. To use a triadic harmony successfully, the colors should be carefully balanced letting one color dominate and use the others for accent.

Value

A character vector with the given color and the triadic colors in hexadecimal notation

Author(s)

Gaston Sanchez

See Also

complementary, splitComp, adjacent, tetradic, square

Examples

# triadic colors of 'tomato'
triadic("tomato")

# triadic colors of 'tomato' with background color 'gray20'
triadic("tomato", bg = "gray20")

Example output

[1] "#FF6347" "#47FF63" "#6347FF"
[1] "#FF6347" "#47FF63" "#6347FF"

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