scale_primer: Primer color scales

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Primer color scales

Description

See pal_primer() for details.

Usage

scale_color_primer(palette = c("mark17"), alpha = 1, ...)

scale_colour_primer(palette = c("mark17"), alpha = 1, ...)

scale_fill_primer(palette = c("mark17"), alpha = 1, ...)

Arguments

palette	Palette type. Currently there is one available option: "mark17" (17-color palette).
alpha	Transparency level, a real number in (0, 1]. See alpha in grDevices::rgb() for details.
...	Additional parameters for ggplot2::discrete_scale().

Author(s)

Nan Xiao | [e-mail] | https://nanx.me

References

GitHub (2025). "Primer data visualization colors." https://primer.style/product/ui-patterns/data-visualization/

Examples

example_scatterplot() + scale_color_primer()
example_barplot() + scale_fill_primer()

ggsci documentation built on Nov. 5, 2025, 6:01 p.m.