Package: Polychrome 1.6.0

Kevin R. Coombes

Polychrome: Qualitative Palettes with Many Colors

Tools for creating, viewing, and assessing qualitative palettes with many (20-30 or more) colors. See Coombes and colleagues (2019) <doi:10.18637/jss.v090.c01>.

Authors:Guy Brock [aut], Kevin R. Coombes [aut, cre]

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Polychrome/json (API)

# Install 'Polychrome' in R:
install.packages('Polychrome', repos = c('https://r-forge.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/oompa

Datasets:
  • alphabet - A 26-Color Palette
  • colorsafe - A 10-Color Palette Distinguishable By COlor-Deficit Individuals
  • Dark24 - Light and Dark 24-Color Palettes
  • glasbey - The 32-color Glasbye palette
  • iscc - Color Names From the Inter-Society Color Council
  • Light24 - Light and Dark 24-Color Palettes
  • palette36 - A 36-Color Palette
  • sky.colors - Polychrome Color Palettes
  • xkcd - Color Names From the Color Survey by Randall Munroe of XKCD

On CRAN:

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Last updated from:969e77c656. Checks:9 OK. Indexed: yes.

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linux-devel-x86_64OK121
source / vignettesOK185
linux-release-x86_64OK116
macos-release-arm64OK84
macos-oldrel-arm64OK80
windows-develOK85
windows-releaseOK82
windows-oldrelOK72
wasm-releaseOK98

Exports:alphabet.colorscolorDeficitcolorNamescomputeDistancescreatePalettedark.colorsgetLUVglasbey.colorsgreen.armytage.colorsinvertColorsisccNameskelly.colorslight.colorsluminancememberPlotp3dpalette36.colorsplotDistancesplothcplotpcrancurvesranpointsranswatchsky.colorssortByHuesortByLuminanceswatchswatchHueswatchLuminanceuvscatterxkcdNames

Dependencies:colorspacescatterplot3d

Color Names
Getting Started | Scatter Plots
Rendered fromcolornames.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdown

Last update: 2026-05-22
Started: 2026-05-22

Using Polychrome With ggplot
Getting Started | Simulating Complex Data | Plotting the results.
Rendered fromtestgg.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdown

Last update: 2020-11-10
Started: 2020-11-10

Polychrome: Creating New Palettes
Getting Started | Recommendations | A Small Palette | Do the seeds matter? | How many good colors can we find? | Improving the estimate | Computational Complexity
Rendered fromcreatingPalettes.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdown

Last update: 2018-05-17
Started: 2017-04-27

Polychrome: Plots of Many Colors
Getting Started | Resorted barplots | Scatter Plots | Plotting Curves | Color Similarity | Grayscale
Rendered frompolychrome.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdown

Last update: 2018-05-17
Started: 2016-05-11

Polychrome: Color Deficits
Introduction | Red-Green Color Maps | Large Qualitative Palettes | Creating New Palettes | A Small Color-Safe Palette | Conclusion
Rendered fromcolor-deficits.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdown

Last update: 2018-04-11
Started: 2017-11-19

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help pageTopics
A 26-Color Palettealphabet
Converting Colors to Illustrate Color Deficient VisioncolorDeficit
A 10-Color Palette Distinguishable By COlor-Deficit Individualscolorsafe
Creating New Color PalettescreatePalette
Light and Dark 24-Color PalettesDark24 Light24
Visualizing Color PalettescomputeDistances distances plotDistances
Get the L*u*v* coordinates of the colorsgetLUV
The 32-color Glasbye paletteglasbey
Inverting the Plot Device Color SchemeinvertColors
Color Names From the Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC)iscc
Standard Names for ColorscolorNames isccNames
Membership PlotsmemberPlot
Visualizing Color Palettesluminance p3d Palette Viewers palette.viewers plothc plotpc rancurves ranpoints ranswatch swatch swatchHue swatchLuminance uvscatter
A 36-Color Palettepalette36
Polychrome Color Palettesalphabet.colors Color Palettes dark.colors glasbey.colors green.armytage.colors kelly.colors light.colors palette36.colors palettes sky.colors
The 32-color Glasbye palettesky-colors Spectral Karyotyping
Sorting PalettessortByHue sortByLuminance
Color Names From the Color Survey by Randall Munroe of XKCDxkcd
Consensus Names for ColorsxkcdNames