mcgill_darks: Dark colours of McGill University, Canada

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Dark colours of McGill University, Canada

Description

mcgill_darks provides the dark colours of McGill University, Canada.

Usage

mcgill_darks

Format

An object of class character of length 7.

Details

The muted colours are "dark 1" (defined as CMYK 0/72/75/35, RGB 170/75/49, HEX #AA4B31), "dark 2" (defined as CMYK 35/45/100/0, RGB 178/140/53, HEX #B28C35), "dark 3" (defined as CMYK 90/45/53/23, RGB 10/98/102, HEX #0A6266), "dark 4" (defined as CMYK 97/66/38/20, RGB 2/79/109, HEX #024F6D), "dark 5" (defined as CMYK 78/42/86/40, RGB 48/85/52, HEX #305534), "dark 6" (defined as CMYK 65/90/31/18, RGB 103/53/103, HEX #673567), and "dark 7" (defined as CMYK 0/100/90/40, RGB 158/9/24, HEX #9E0918).

mcgill_darks uses the HEX colour definitions.

McGill's secondary colours are not official, but rather suggested colours that cover a larger spectrum to complement the primary "McGill red". They can be used to add variety and contrast for headings, bullets, background and other graphic elements.

Note that the CMYK colour values differ from RGB and HEX definitions.

Value

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

Author(s)

unicol, 2023-06-20.

Source

Colour definitions are based on McGill's visual identity guide.

See Also

mcgill_red for the primary colour of McGill University; mcgill_pastels for the pastel colours of McGill; mcgill_brights for the bright colours of McGill; mcgill_muted for the muted colours of McGill; mcgill_grey for the grey of McGill; seecol for viewing and comparing colour palettes; usecol for using colour palettes; simcol for finding similar colours; newpal for defining new colour palettes; grepal for finding named colours.

Other Canadian university color palettes: carleton, concordia_1, concordia_2, concordia_3, concordia_4, guelph, laval, manitoba_1, manitoba_2, mcgill_brights, mcgill_grey, mcgill_muted, mcgill_pastels, mcgill_red, mcmaster_brighterworld, mcmaster_heritage, mun_1, mun_2, queensu_1, queensu_2, sfu_brand, ubc, ucalgary_1, ucalgary_2, ucalgary_accent, ucalgary_warmgreys, uottawa, utoronto, uvic_1, uvic_2, uwaterloo_arts, uwaterloo_engineering, uwaterloo_environment, uwaterloo_health, uwaterloo_main, uwaterloo_math, uwaterloo_science, western_uni, yorku_1, yorku_2

Examples

mcgill_darks
unikn::seecol(mcgill_darks, main = "Dark colours of McGill") # view colour palette

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