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cubepalettes

Colour and palettes as defined in the Cube Group Brand guidelines.

The main purpose of cubepalette is to enable Cube Group staff to use the colours and palettes defined in the brand guidelines within R.

cubepalette was created with the palettes package, which provides a comprehensive library for colour vectors and colour palettes using a new family of colour classes (palettes_colour, and palettes_palette) that always print as hex codes with colour previews. Colour palette packages created with palettes have access to the following capabilities, all without requiring you to write any code: formatting, casting and coercion, extraction and updating of components, plotting, colour mixing arithmetic, and colour interpolation.

See the following vignettes to learn how to use cubepalletws with other packages:

• Using palettes with ggplot2
• Using palettes with gt
• Using palettes with biscale
• Compatibility with other colour packages

Included Colours

The cube palettte includes three colours green, orange, grey. These are supported by light and dark shades.

#> Loading required package: palettes

Primary colours

Cube Group’s colour palette uses modern and distinctive tones to convey corporate warmth.

Cube Green

cube.darkgreen is used in majority, bringing maturity and a seriousness when needed.

Cube Orange

cube.lightorange adds warmth, livening up layouts and highlighting key information.

Cube Grey

cube.grey is used as a neutral background colour.

Secondary colours

Cube Green, Orange and White

The cube.green, cube.orange and cube.white comprise the secondary colours

Tertiary colours

Cube Green, Orange and White

The cube.lightgreen, cube.darkorange and cube.black comprise the tertiary colours

cube.black and cube.white are convenience names for black and white that allow for consistent syntax when using the cubepalette.

Installation

You can install the development version of cubepalette from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("zerogetsamgow/cubepalette")

Usage

library(cubepalette)

cubepalette comes with a set of 4 discrete colour palettes, and 5 sequential colour palettes, which can be accessed from the following R objects:

• cube_palettes_discrete for discrete palettes
• cube_palettes_tints for sequential palettes
• cube_palettes for all palettes

Discrete

Discrete palettes for use with various backgrounds are available. dark, light and other have been compiled to work on backgrounds composed of colours from the Cube Group brand guideline.

plot(cube_palettes_discrete)

Tints

For long form documents infographics and charts, tints from the Cube Group colour palette can be used in 20 per cent increments. cube_palettes_tints is populated with compliant greens, oraness and greys.

A broader palette - darkoranges - is included for greater variation/increments where required.

plot(cube_palettes_tints)

Palettes can be subset using [, [[, and $.

• To extract one or more palettes use [:

  plot(cube_palettes_tints[c("greens", "greys")])

  

• To extract a single palette as a colour vector use [[ or $:

  plot(cube_palettes_tints[["oranges"]])

  

  plot(cube_palettes_tints$darkoranges)

  

• To get names of palettes use names():

  names(cube_palettes_tints)
  #> [1] "greens"      "oranges"     "darkoranges" "pinks"      
  #> [5] "greys"

Cube pink

cubepalette includes a colour cube.pink that is deprecated. cube.lightorange is the preferred name for this colour.

Documentation

See also documentation for the palettes package at https://mccarthy-m-g.github.io/palettes/ or in the installed package: help(package = "palettes").