scale_uchicago: The University of Chicago color scales

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The University of Chicago color scales

Description

See pal_uchicago() for details.

Usage

scale_color_uchicago(palette = c("default", "light", "dark"), alpha = 1, ...)

scale_colour_uchicago(palette = c("default", "light", "dark"), alpha = 1, ...)

scale_fill_uchicago(palette = c("default", "light", "dark"), alpha = 1, ...)

Arguments

palette	Palette type. There are three available options: "default" (9-color palette); "light" (9-color light palette); "dark" (9-color dark 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

https://news.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/_uchicago.identity.guidelines.pdf

Examples

p1 <- example_scatterplot()
p2 <- example_barplot()

p1 + scale_color_uchicago()
p2 + scale_fill_uchicago()

p1 + scale_color_uchicago(palette = "light")
p2 + scale_fill_uchicago(palette = "light")

p1 + scale_color_uchicago(palette = "dark")
p2 + scale_fill_uchicago(palette = "dark")

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