Color Palettes based on Tableau (discrete)

Description

Color palettes used in Tableau.

Usage

tableau_color_pal(palette = "tableau10")

Arguments

Details

The number in some palette names indicates the maximum number of values supported, e.g tableau20 supports up to 20 values. "trafficlight" supports up to nine values, and "cyclic" supports up to 20 values.

References

http://vis.stanford.edu/color-names/analyzer/

Maureen Stone, 'Designing Colors for Data' (slides), at the International Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging, Banff, AB, Canada, June 22, 2007 http://www.stonesc.com/slides/CompAe%202007.pdf.

Heer, Jeffrey and Maureen Stone, 2012 'Color Naming Models for Color Selection, Image Editing and Palette Design', ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) http://vis.stanford.edu/files/2012-ColorNameModels-CHI.pdf.

See Also

Other colour tableau: scale_colour_gradient2_tableau, scale_colour_gradient_tableau, scale_colour_tableau, tableau_div_gradient_pal, tableau_seq_gradient_pal

Examples

library("scales")

show_col(tableau_color_pal("tableau20")(20))
show_col(tableau_color_pal("tableau10")(10))
show_col(tableau_color_pal("tableau10medium")(10))
show_col(tableau_color_pal("tableau10light")(10))
show_col(tableau_color_pal("colorblind10")(10))
show_col(tableau_color_pal("trafficlight")(10))
show_col(tableau_color_pal("purplegray12")(12))
show_col(tableau_color_pal("bluered12")(12))
show_col(tableau_color_pal("greenorange12")(12))
show_col(tableau_color_pal("cyclic")(20))