R: Tetradic Color Scheme

tetradic {colortools} | R Documentation

## Tetradic Color Scheme

### Description

Tetradic color schemes uses four colors arranged into two complementary pairs.

### Usage

      tetradic(color, plot = TRUE, bg = "white", labcol = NULL,
        cex = 0.8, title = TRUE)

### Arguments

`color` | an R color name or a color in hexadecimal notation
`plot` | logical value indicating whether to plot a color wheel with the generated scheme
`bg` | background color of the plot. Used only when `plot=TRUE`
`labcol` | color for the labels (i.e. names of the colors). Used only when `plot=TRUE`
`cex` | numeric value indicating the character expansion of the labels
`title` | logical value indicating whether to display a title in the plot. Used only when `plot=TRUE`

### Details

The tetradic colors are obtained following a color wheel with 12 colors, each one spaced at 30 degrees from each oter.

### Value

A character vector with the given color and the tetradic colors in hexadecimal notation

### Author(s)

Gaston Sanchez

### See Also

`complementary`, `splitComp`, `adjacent`, `triadic`, `square`

### Examples

    # tetradic colors for 'tomato'
    tetradic("tomato")

    # tetradic colors for 'tomato' with bg='gray20'
    tetradic("tomato", bg = "gray20")

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