R: Triadic Color Scheme

triadic {colortools} | R Documentation

## Triadic Color Scheme

### Description

Triadic color schemes use colors that are evenly spaced around the color wheel.

### Usage

      triadic(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 triadic colors are obtained following a color wheel with 12 colors, each one spaced at 30 degrees from each other. Triadic color schemes tend to be quite vibrant. To use a triadic harmony successfully, the colors should be carefully balanced letting one color dominate and use the others for accent.

### Value

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

### Author(s)

Gaston Sanchez

### See Also

`complementary`, `splitComp`, `adjacent`, `tetradic`, `square`

### Examples

    # triadic colors of 'tomato'
    triadic("tomato")

    # triadic colors of 'tomato' with background color 'gray20'
    triadic("tomato", bg = "gray20")

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