technocolour: colour palettes based on electronic music records

The technocolour package contains colour palettes based on the album artwork some of my favourite electronic music records. Enjoy!

Installation

You can install the package from Github:

devtools::install_github("sophiemeakin/technocolour")

Available palettes

Quick-start guide

List available palettes

List the names of all available palettes with list_palettes(); you can specify the type of palette (qualitative, sequential, or diverging) with the argument type:

## [1] "bodied" "esther" "hotbot" "ibrik"  "poodle" "rush"   "x"

Visualise palettes

Preview a named palette with print_palette():

print_palette(palette = "esther")

Using with ggplot2

Use scale_color_techno() and scale_fill_techno() to use the palette in ggplot object:

ggplot(data = iris,
       aes(x = Petal.Length, y = Petal.Width, col = Species)) +
  geom_point(size = 3) +
  scale_color_techno(palette = "rush") +
  theme_bw() +
  theme(legend.position = "top",
        text = element_text(size = 14))

Palette info

Print the track name, artist name and URL link for a named palette with info():

info("poodle")
##      Artist:  Avalon Emerson 
##      Record:  DJ-Kicks EP 
##  Track name:  Poodle Power 
##         URL:  https://avalonemerson.bandcamp.com/track/poodle-power

Please read the package documentation for full details.

Contributing

Please add new palettes based on your favourite records! Check out our contributing guide to find out how to get involved.