R: Split Complementary Color Scheme

splitComp {colortools} | R Documentation

## Split Complementary Color Scheme

### Description

The split-complementary color scheme is a variation of the complementary color scheme. It uses the two colors adjacent to its complement.

### Usage

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

### Arguments

`color` | an R color name of 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. Unsed only when `plot=TRUE`

### Details

This color scheme has the same strong visual contrast as the complementary scheme, but it is supposed to have less tension.

### Value

A character vector with the given color and the split-complementary colors in hexadecimal notation

### Author(s)

Gaston Sanchez

### See Also

`complementary`

### Examples

    # split-complementary colors of 'tomato' (no plot)
    splitComp("tomato", plot = FALSE)

    # split-complementary colors of 'tomato' (with dark gray background)
    splitComp("tomato", bg = "gray40")

[Package colortools version 0.1.5 Index]