ggrateful

Grateful Dead album cover and tour art color palettes for ggplot2.

16 discrete palettes pulled from studio album covers, live releases, and iconic tour art, plus 5 continuous gradient variants for sequential and diverging color scales.

Installation

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("RandomForestz/ggrateful")

Usage

library(ggplot2)
library(ggrateful)

# discrete fill scale
ggplot(iris, aes(x = Species, y = Petal.Length, fill = Species)) +
  geom_boxplot() +
  scale_fill_deadhead(name = "dancing_bears") +
  theme_minimal()

# discrete color scale
ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = wt, y = mpg, color = factor(gear))) +
  geom_point(size = 3) +
  scale_color_deadhead(name = "terrapin_station") +
  theme_minimal()

# continuous gradient fill/color
ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = wt, y = mpg, color = hp)) +
  geom_point(size = 3) +
  scale_color_deadhead_c(name = "best_of") +
  theme_minimal()

Preview any palette directly:

display_deadhead("bertha")       # one palette
display_deadhead_all()           # all 16 at once

Pull raw hex codes:

deadhead("steal_your_face")      # all colors
deadhead("steal_your_face", 3)   # first 3 colors

Palettes

Palette	Colors	Continuous variant
dancing_bears	6
blues_for_allah	11
american_beauty	11
best_of	12	✓
steal_your_face	6	✓ (diverging)
terrapin_station	11
wake_of_the_flood	11	✓
from_the_mars_hotel	11
in_the_dark	11
workingmans_dead	11	✓
europe_72	11
complete_studio_rarities	11	✓
cornell_77	11
go_to_heaven	11
shakedown_street	11
bertha	11

Functions

• deadhead(name, n, reverse) — pull n hex colors from a palette
• scale_color_deadhead() / scale_colour_deadhead() / scale_fill_deadhead() — discrete ggplot scales
• scale_color_deadhead_c() / scale_colour_deadhead_c() / scale_fill_deadhead_c() — continuous ggplot scales
• display_deadhead(name) — preview one palette
• display_deadhead_all() — preview all palettes at once

Demo page

See index.html for a visual gallery of every palette with album art, swatches, and example visualizations. Open it locally or serve it via GitHub Pages.

Disclaimer

Grateful Dead album art, logos, and imagery are the property of their respective owners. This is an unofficial, fan-made project for extracting color palettes and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Grateful Dead Productions.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.