'suffrager': a feminist colour palette for R

Hi! 👋 We are currently looking for help to improve the colour palettes extracted from the suffragette and sufragists banners below. Do you have an eye for colour? Create a pull request or reach out to us: @d_alburez @ValentinaIemmi.

Installation

library(devtools)
install_github("alburezg/suffrager")

Usage

library(suffrager)

See all available palettes:

names(suf_palettes)
#> [1] "london"   "oxon"     "CarolMan" "hanwell"  "chelsea"  "classic"

Palettes

1. London Society (from Mary Lowndes Album)

 

# Discrete
suf_palette("london")

Example

library(ggplot2)
#> Warning: package 'ggplot2' was built under R version 3.5.2

data(airquality)

ggplot(airquality, aes(x=Day, y=Month)) +
  geom_tile(aes(fill=Temp)) +
  scale_fill_gradientn(colours = rev(suf_palette("london", 30, type = "continuous"))) +
  coord_equal()

2. Oxon Berks Bucks Federation: Never a Step Backward

 

# Discrete
suf_palette("oxon")

Example

data(diamonds)

ggplot(diamonds, aes(x=carat, y=price, colour=cut)) +
  geom_point() +
  scale_colour_manual(values = suf_palette("oxon"))

3. Caroline & Manchester

 

# Discrete
suf_palette("CarolMan")

Example

data(iris)

ggplot(iris,aes(x = Petal.Length, fill = Species)) + 
  geom_density() +
  scale_color_manual(values = suf_palette("CarolMan"))

4. Hanwell Women's Institute

 

# Discrete
suf_palette("hanwell")

Example

data(diamonds)

ggplot(diamonds, aes(x = carat, fill = cut)) + 
  geom_histogram(bins = 20) +
    scale_fill_manual(values = rev(suf_palette("hanwell")))

5. Chelsea & St George

# Discrete
suf_palette("chelsea")

Example

data("airquality")

ggplot(airquality, aes(x = factor(Month), y = Ozone, fill = factor(Month))) + 
  geom_violin() +
  scale_fill_manual(values = suf_palette("chelsea"))
#> Warning: Removed 37 rows containing non-finite values (stat_ydensity).

6. Classic suffragette

# Discrete
suf_palette("classic")

Example

data(iris)

ggplot(iris,aes(x = Petal.Length, y = Petal.Width, color = Species)) + 
  geom_point() +
  geom_smooth(method = 'loess') +
  facet_grid(. ~ Species, scales = 'free') +
  scale_color_manual(values = suf_palette("classic", n = 3, type = "continuous"))

Create a continuous palette of length n based on the suffragette colours:

# Continuous
suf_palette("classic", n = 6, type = "continuous")

Acknowledgements

Developed by Diego Alburez-Gutierrez and Valentina Iemmi. The package's architecture and documentation was taken from Karthik Ram's wesanderson package. Images for the london, oxon, CarolMan, chelsea, and classic palettes used with kind permission from the LSE Womens Library Collection. Images for palette hanwell were provided by the 100 Banners project and are used with the project's consent. The banners for the chelsea pallete come from the collections of the Museum of London, as well as the rosette used for the classic palette.

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