--- title: "Using harlem color palettes" output: rmarkdown::html_vignette vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{Using harlem color palettes} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} --- ```{r setup, include=FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set( collapse = TRUE, comment = "#>", fig.width = 7, fig.height = 4.5, dpi = 96, message = FALSE, warning = FALSE ) library(harlem) library(ggplot2) set.seed(1) data(diamonds, package = "ggplot2") ``` The `harlem` package provides color palettes inspired by Harlem Renaissance artworks. Use them in base R plots or with `ggplot2`. ### Available palettes ```{r} names(harlem_palettes) ``` ### Preview a palette ```{r} print_palette(harlem_palettes$MotleyBlues) ``` ### Discrete example (bar plot) ```{r} # Use a discrete palette directly palette <- harlem_palettes$JonesAscentEthiopia # Diamonds bar chart colored by cut p1 <- ggplot(diamonds, aes(x = cut, fill = cut)) + geom_bar() + scale_fill_manual(values = palette) + theme_minimal() + labs(title = "Count of diamonds by cut", x = "Cut", y = "Count") p1 ``` ### Continuous example (scatter plot) ```{r} # Build a continuous gradient from a palette continuous_cols <- harlem_palette("MotleyBlues", n = 256, type = "continuous") # Use a scatter plot to demonstrate continuous color scale subset_diamonds <- diamonds[sample.int(nrow(diamonds), 2000), ] p2 <- ggplot(subset_diamonds, aes(x = carat, y = price, color = price)) + geom_point(alpha = 0.6, size = 1.2) + scale_color_gradientn(colors = continuous_cols) + theme_minimal() + labs(title = "Scatter with continuous palette", x = "Carat", y = "Price", color = "Price") p2 ```