heat: A sequential color palette for heatmaps.

In allopole/datacolor: Color for Data Visualization

Description

This function returns a sequential red-to-yellow palette of length n, suitable as a replacement for grDevices::heat.colors or colorspace::heat_hcl.

Usage

heat(n = 10)

Arguments

n	Number of levels in palette (number of bins). Default: n = 10.

Details

Palette characteristics:

• perceptually linear

• color-blind-safe (under three most common forms of colorblindness) and print friendly

• under normal vision: linear lightness, chroma, and hue gradients

• under colorblind viewing, linear lightness, smooth chroma, flat hue gradients

Value

character vector. A vector of RGB colors specified as hex color codes (#RRGGBB).

Examples

colorplot(heat(128))

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