xcolors: List the XKCD survey colors

In xkcdcolors: Color Names from the XKCD Color Survey

Description

Lists (a subset of) the 949 colors consistently identified in the XKCD web color survey.

Usage

xcolors(max_rank = -1)

Arguments

max_rank

If positive, restrict to the top (most frequently named) max_rank colors.

Value

Vector of character strings

References

http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

Examples

xcolors(10)
name2color(xcolors(10))
barplot(rep(1,10),col=name2color(xcolors(10)))

Example output

 [1] "purple"      "green"       "blue"        "pink"        "brown"      
 [6] "red"         "light blue"  "teal"        "orange"      "light green"
 [1] "#7e1e9c" "#15b01a" "#0343df" "#ff81c0" "#653700" "#e50000" "#95d0fc"
 [8] "#029386" "#f97306" "#96f97b"

xkcdcolors documentation built on May 2, 2019, 4:26 a.m.