cardiff_1: Primary colours of Cardiff University, Wales

In unicol: The Colors of your University

Primary colours of Cardiff University, Wales

Description

cardiff_1 provides the four primary colours (plus 8 tints) of the Cardiff University, Wales, UK.

Usage

cardiff_1

Format

An object of class character of length 12.

Details

The 4 primary colours are "Cardiff red", defined as HEX "#d3374a" or R:211 G: 55 B: 74, "Cardiff grey", defined as HEX "#d3d3d2" or R:211 G:211 B:210, "Cardiff black}, defined as HEX \code{"#22211f" or R: 34 G: 33 B: 31, and "white", defined as HEX "#ffffff" or R:255 G:255 B:255.

cardiff_1 uses the HEX color definitions.

Colour is used on the University site for way-finding as well as to improve contrast and visibility of content.

The primary Cardiff University colour palette should be used consistently throughout its application of the User Experience Style Guidelines.

The primary Cardiff University colour palette contains a spectrum of 8 tints from light to dark grey. These can be used mainly as graphical backgrounds, button overstates etc.

Value

A named vector of colors (HEX/HTML codes of type character).

Author(s)

unicol, 2023-09-10.

Source

Colour definitions are based on Cardiff University's User Experience Style Guide (PDF, v2 of 04/06/2013).

See Also

cardiff_2 for examples of secondary colours of Cardiff University; seecol for viewing and comparing color palettes; usecol for using color palettes; simcol for finding similar colors; newpal for defining new color palettes; grepal for finding named colors.

Other Welsh university color palettes: aberystwyth_1, aberystwyth_2, bangor_1, bangor_2, bangor_3, bangor_4, cardiff_2

Examples

cardiff_1
unikn::seecol(cardiff_1, col_bg = "grey96",  
              main = "Primary colours of Cardiff University (w/8 tints)")

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