nmfspalette

R color palette for NOAA Fisheries official colors.
https://github.com/nmfs-ost/nmfspalette

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:art: an R color palette for NOAA Fisheries official colors

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/nmfs-ost/nmfspalette
• Owner: nmfs-ost
• License: other
• Created: 2020-11-17T18:40:41.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-06-10T13:53:40.000Z (5 days ago)
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• Topics: color-palette, noaa, noaa-nsap, r
• Language: R
• Homepage: https://nmfs-ost.github.io/nmfspalette/
• Size: 2.62 MB
• Stars: 33
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 10
• Open Issues: 1
• Releases: 6
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.Rmd
  • License: LICENSE

README.Rmd

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```{r}
#| include: false
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>",
  fig.path = "man/figures/README-",
  out.width = "100%"
)
```

# nmfspalette 



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An R color palette for `{ggplot2}` using NOAA Fisheries branding colors.

`{nmfspalette}` implements these [steps](https://drsimonj.svbtle.com/creating-corporate-colour-palettes-for-ggplot2) to create a `{ggplot2}` compatible palette according to [NOAA Fisheries branding](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lXHmfGWCj6pI_Dr3C-Dwcnf1pXOIOztp/view?usp=sharing) (NOAA internal only).

## Installation

You can install the development version of nmfspalette from [GitHub](https://github.com/) with:

```r
# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("nmfs-ost/nmfspalette")
```

To load the package, use:

```{r}
#| message: false
library(nmfspalette)
```

## Contributing

We welcome contributions to `{nmfspalette}`. You are welcome to make any changes you would like on a fork and submit a pull request. For more substantial changes or to create a branch, please contact [email protected] (NOAA Affiliates only). We ask that all contributors adhere to The NOAA Fisheries Integrated Toolbox [code of conduct](https://github.com/nmfs-ost/Resources/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).

## Usage

To learn how to use `nmfspalette`, please check out the [interactive `learnr` tutorial](https://connect.fisheries.noaa.gov/colors/).

Extract an interpolated color palette from the default "oceans" palette.

You can change the number of colors (10 shown below).

```{r}
#| label: default_pal
nmfs_palette("oceans")(10)
```

## Palettes

To see the palettes, use the `display_nmfs_palette()` function.

### Main NOAA Fisheries palettes

These palettes contain 4 or 6 colors.

#### oceans

```{r}
#| label: displ_oceans
#| fig-height: 2
display_nmfs_palette("oceans", 6)
```


#### waves

```{r}
#| label: displ_waves
#| fig-height: 2
display_nmfs_palette("waves", 4)
```

#### seagrass

```{r}
#| label: displ_seagrass
#| fig-height: 2
display_nmfs_palette("seagrass", 4)
```

#### urchin

```{r}
#| label: displ_urchin
#| fig-height: 2
display_nmfs_palette("urchin", 4)
```

#### crustacean

```{r}
#| label: displ_crustacean
#| fig-height: 2
display_nmfs_palette("crustacean", 4)
```

#### coral

```{r}
#| label: displ_coral
#| fig-height: 2
display_nmfs_palette("coral", 4)
```

#### regional (discrete)

```{r}
#| label: displ_regional_web
#| fig-height: 2
display_nmfs_palette("regional", 6)
```

##### Alternative regional palettes

For some with color vision deficiency (C.V.D.), it may be difficult to discern the colors in the regional palette. We have provided two alternative regional palettes, below.
*Note*: The alternative palette 1 contains colors that are entirely within the NMFS brand color set; alternative palette 2 does not. However, the colors in alternative palette 1 may be less distinguishable for all types of color perception as opposed to alternative palette 2.

```{r, fig.height = 2, displ_regional_web2}
nmfspalette::display_nmfs_palette("regional_alt1", 6)
```

```{r, fig.height = 2, displ_regional_web3}
nmfspalette::display_nmfs_palette("regional_alt2", 6)
```


### NOAA Fisheries complementary colors

These 5 palettes contain 4 complementary colors each and are identical to the main NOAA Fisheries palettes, but some colors have different names. Check out the [nmfs_cols.R file](https://github.com/nmfs-ost/nmfspalette/blob/main/R/nmfs_cols.R) for more information.

### NOAA Fisheries background & tint colors

These palettes contain 4 colors.

#### background sky

```{r}
#| label: displ_background_sky
#| fig-height: 2
display_nmfs_palette("background_sky", 4)
```

#### background green

```{r}
#| label: displ_background_green
#| fig-height: 2
display_nmfs_palette("background_green", 4)
```

#### background gray

```{r}
#| label: displ_background_gray
#| fig-height: 2
display_nmfs_palette("background_gray", 4)
```

### NOAA core colors (Fisheries version)

This palette contains 11 colors.

```{r}
#| label: displ_core
#| fig-height: 2
display_nmfs_palette("core", 11)
```

### NOAA alert colors

These palettes contain 4 colors.

#### alert red

```{r}
#| label: displ_alert_red
#| fig-height: 2
display_nmfs_palette("alert_red", 4)
```

#### alert orange

```{r}
#| label: displ_alert_orange
#| fig-height: 2
display_nmfs_palette("alert_orange", 4)
```

#### alert yellow

```{r}
#| label: displ_alert_yellow
#| fig-height: 2
display_nmfs_palette("alert_yellow", 4)
```

#### alert green

```{r}
#| label: displ_alert_green
#| fig-height: 2
display_nmfs_palette("alert_green", 4)
```

## Examples

In addition to `nmfs_palette` and `display_nmfs_palette` to get palettes, you can extract colors by name. Please see the [NOAA Fisheries Branding guide](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lXHmfGWCj6pI_Dr3C-Dwcnf1pXOIOztp/view?usp=sharing) (NOAA internal only) for color names. Here, for most color names, underscores are used in place of spaces. Colors defined before 2023 have no spaces in the color names.

```{r}
#| label: nmfs_cols
nmfs_cols("vivid_crustacean")
nmfs_cols("processblue")
```

To use the palettes with `{ggplot2}`, the `scale_color_nmfs()` and `scale_fill_nmfs()` functions are provided. If no argument is given to `scale_color_nmfs()`, a default ("oceans") is used:

```{r}
#| label: default_plot
#| fig-height: 3
library(ggplot2)
p <- ggplot(iris, aes(Sepal.Width, Sepal.Length, color = Species)) +
  geom_point(size = 4) +
  scale_color_nmfs()
p
```

`scale_fill_nmfs()` does not have a default and therefore requires a named argument, this is an example using the "crustacean" palette:

```{r}
#| label: scale_fill_example
#| fig-height: 3
ggplot(faithfuld, aes(waiting, eruptions)) +
  geom_raster(aes(fill = density)) +
  scale_fill_nmfs(palette = "crustacean", discrete = FALSE, reverse = TRUE)
```

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