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Colour Schemes for Scientific Data Visualization

v1.17.0 · Sep 29, 2025 · GPL (>= 3)

Description

Color schemes ready for each type of data (qualitative, diverging or sequential), with colors that are distinct for all people, including color-blind readers. This package provides an implementation of Paul Tol (2018) and Fabio Crameri (2018) <doi:10.5194/gmd-11-2541-2018> color schemes for use with 'graphics' or 'ggplot2'. It provides tools to simulate color-blindness and to test how well the colors of any palette are identifiable. Several scientific thematic schemes (geologic timescale, land cover, FAO soils, etc.) are also implemented.

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Version History

new 1.17.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.17.0 ← 1.16.0 diff Sep 28, 2025
updated 1.16.0 ← 1.15.0 diff Feb 24, 2025
updated 1.15.0 ← 1.14.0 diff Jan 9, 2025
updated 1.14.0 ← 1.13.0 diff Aug 25, 2024
updated 1.13.0 ← 1.12.0 diff Jun 30, 2024
updated 1.12.0 ← 1.11.0 diff Jan 7, 2024
updated 1.11.0 ← 1.10.0 diff Aug 20, 2023
updated 1.10.0 ← 1.9.0 diff Apr 16, 2023
updated 1.9.0 ← 1.8.0 diff Jun 17, 2022
updated 1.8.0 ← 1.7.0 diff Jan 19, 2022
updated 1.7.0 ← 1.6.0 diff Sep 1, 2021
updated 1.6.0 ← 1.5.0 diff Jun 13, 2021
updated 1.5.0 ← 1.4.1 diff Apr 22, 2021
updated 1.4.1 ← 1.4.0 diff Mar 16, 2021
updated 1.4.0 ← 1.3.0 diff Oct 4, 2020
updated 1.3.0 ← 1.2.0 diff Oct 25, 2019
updated 1.2.0 ← 1.1.3 diff Aug 18, 2019
updated 1.1.3 ← 1.1.2 diff Jun 4, 2019
updated 1.1.2 ← 1.1.1 diff Jun 1, 2019