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In karthik/wesanderson: A Wes Anderson Palette Generator

Wes Anderson Palettes

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I saved you from boring plots. What did you ever do? - Max Fischer (probably)

Tired of generic mass produced palettes for your plots? Short of adding an owl and dressing up your plot in a bowler hat, here’s the most indie thing you can do to one. First round of palettes derived from the amazing Tumblr blog Wes Anderson Palettes.

install.packages("wesanderson")

Or the development version

devtools::install_github("karthik/wesanderson")

library("wesanderson")

# See all palettes
names(wes_palettes)
#>  [1] "BottleRocket1"  "BottleRocket2"  "Rushmore1"      "Rushmore"      
#>  [5] "Royal1"         "Royal2"         "Zissou1"        "Darjeeling1"   
#>  [9] "Darjeeling2"    "Chevalier1"     "FantasticFox1"  "Moonrise1"     
#> [13] "Moonrise2"      "Moonrise3"      "Cavalcanti1"    "GrandBudapest1"
#> [17] "GrandBudapest2" "IsleofDogs1"    "IsleofDogs2"    "FrenchDispatch"
#> [21] "AsteroidCity1"  "AsteroidCity2"  "AsteroidCity3"

wes_palette("BottleRocket1")

wes_palette("BottleRocket2")

wes_palette("Rushmore1")

wes_palette("Royal1")

wes_palette("Royal2")

library("ggplot2")
ggplot(mtcars, aes(factor(cyl), fill=factor(vs))) +  geom_bar() +
  scale_fill_manual(values = wes_palette("Royal1"))

wes_palette("Zissou1")

pal <- wes_palette("Zissou1", 21, type = "continuous")
image(volcano, col = pal)

pal <- wes_palette("Zissou1", 100, type = "continuous")
# heatmap is a local dataset
ggplot(heatmap, aes(x = X2, y = X1, fill = value)) +
  geom_tile() + 
  scale_fill_gradientn(colours = pal) + 
  scale_x_discrete(expand = c(0, 0)) +
  scale_y_discrete(expand = c(0, 0)) + 
  coord_equal()