Discrete colours for a family — albers

The "contrast" set leads with the family's own tone and its interaction complement – the two colours of the title plate (red and gold for the red family) – then the complementary family (blue), the family at another lightness, the complementary family at another lightness, and a warm neutral. With mode = "dark" each slot keeps its hue (only its lightness changes), so a category keeps its colour when the page switches theme. Adjacent levels differ in hue, so a two-group comparison is always legible. The "family" set is the single-hue A900-A300 ramp.

Usage

albers_discrete(
  family = getOption("albersdown.family", "red"),
  type = c("contrast", "family"),
  mode = c("light", "dark")
)

Arguments

family: Palette family.
type: "contrast" (default) or "family".
mode: "light" (default) or "dark": lighter tones that hold up on the night ground (used for the dark twins of figures).

Value

Character vector of hex colours.

Examples

albers_discrete("red")
#> [1] "#AE1703" "#B97E00" "#3154B9" "#760906" "#507ADF" "#8C8474"
albers_discrete("teal", type = "family")
#> [1] "#044746" "#0A6C69" "#2E918C" "#8DCCC5"