README.md

In csaybar/pal: A color palette search engine.

pal

pal is a color palette search engine that will find your ideal color palette by making cpt-city, hex-color, and paletteer more accessible to realize queries. There are more than 80 000 > palettes waiting to be used!.

Installation

#You can install the released version of pal:
install.packages("pal")

#or the development version from Github:
#instal.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github('csaybar/pal')

Usage

pal has been designed to be the most intuitive as possible. You can access to any color palette using pal_search and pal_get.

pal_search initializes a S3 object that stores the databases and globals params (See pal_search). Additionally, its have four methods:

• pal_n: filter by color palette complexity.
• pal_colors: filter considering the distance (in CIELAB color space) to preferable colors.
• pal_tags: filter using the label attached to each palette color.
• plot: display the multiple palette options in a plot.

# 
pal_search(return = 15, catalogs = c('cpt-city')) +
  pal_colors(blue,yellow) +
  pal_tags(precipitation,rainfall) +
  pal_plot()

Once you have decided what your palette is. It is time for pal_get!.

mypal <- pal_get(id = 'cpt0441',
                 n = 10,
                 reverse = TRUE,
                 interpolate = 'spline')
pal_plot(mypal)     

csaybar/pal documentation built on May 4, 2019, 6:30 a.m.