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Wes Anderson Palettes

I saved you from boring plots. What did you ever do? - Max Fischer (probably)

Tired of generic mass produced palettes for your plots? Short of adding an owl and dressing up your plot in a bowler hat, here's the most indie thing you can do to one. First round of palettes derived from the amazing Tumblr blog Wes Anderson Palettes.

Installation

install.packages("wesanderson")

Or the development version

devtools::install_github("karthik/wesanderson")

Usage

library(wesanderson)

# See all palettes
names(wes_palettes)
#>  [1] "GrandBudapest"  "Moonrise1"      "Royal1"         "Moonrise2"     
#>  [5] "Cavalcanti"     "Royal2"         "GrandBudapest2" "Moonrise3"     
#>  [9] "Chevalier"      "Zissou"         "FantasticFox"   "Darjeeling"    
#> [13] "Rushmore"       "BottleRocket"   "Darjeeling2"

Grand Budapest

library(ggplot2)
ggplot(iris, aes(Sepal.Length, Sepal.Width, color = Species)) + 
  geom_point(size = 3) + 
  scale_color_manual(values = wes_palette("GrandBudapest")) + 
  theme_gray()

Moonrise Kingdom

wes_palette("Moonrise1")

wes_palette("Moonrise2")

wes_palette("Moonrise3")

Royal Tenenbaums

wes_palette("Royal1")

wes_palette("Royal2")

qplot(factor(cyl), data=mtcars, geom="bar", fill=factor(vs)) + 
  scale_fill_manual(values = wes_palette("Royal1"))

Castello Cavalcanti

wes_palette("Cavalcanti")

Hotel Chevalier

wes_palette("Chevalier")

The Life Aquatic

wes_palette("Zissou")

pal <- wes_palette("Zissou", 21, type = "continuous")
image(volcano, col = pal)

pal <- wes_palette("Zissou", 100, type = "continuous")
# heatmap is a local dataset
ggplot(heatmap, aes(x = X2, y = X1, fill = value)) +
  geom_tile() + 
  scale_fill_gradientn(colours = pal) + 
  scale_x_discrete(expand = c(0, 0)) +
  scale_y_discrete(expand = c(0, 0)) + 
  coord_equal() 

Darjeeling Limited

wes_palette("Darjeeling")

wes_palette("Darjeeling2")

Fantastic Mr. Fox

wes_palette("FantasticFox")

Rushmore

wes_palette("Rushmore")

Bottle Rocket

wes_palette("BottleRocket2")
#> Error in wes_palette("BottleRocket2"): Palette not found.

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