uvic_1: Core colours of the University of Victoria, Canada

In unicol: The Colors of your University

Core colours of the University of Victoria, Canada

Description

uvic_1 provides four core colours of the University of Victoria, Canada.

Usage

uvic_1

Format

An object of class character of length 4.

Details

The 4 core colours are "UVic blue" (defined as HEX #005493 or RGB 0/94/184), "UVic yellow" (defined as HEX #F5AA1C or RGB 234/170/0), "UVic red" (defined as HEX #C63527 or RGB 210/38/48), and "UVic dark blue" (defined as HEX #002754 or RGB 0/46/93).

uvic_1 is based on the HEX colour definitions.

The 4 core UVic colours can be used in various combinations depending on audience and medium. The dominant colours are blue and yellow, with red used as an accent colour. Dark blue works well as a background and type colour.

The core colours have to be present on all external communications and marketing materials to establish and build recognition by association.

HEX colour definitions are used for web, RGB colour definitions are used for electronic displays.

Value

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

Author(s)

unicol, 2023-06-29.

Source

Colour definitions are based on UVic's brand information.

See Also

uvic_2 for the complementary colour palette of University of Victoria; 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_darks, 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_2, uwaterloo_arts, uwaterloo_engineering, uwaterloo_environment, uwaterloo_health, uwaterloo_main, uwaterloo_math, uwaterloo_science, western_uni, yorku_1, yorku_2

Examples

uvic_1
unikn::seecol(uvic_1, main = "Core colours of the University of Victoria")  # view palette

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