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NSW Design System Colour Palettes

Source: R/nsw_colours.R, R/pal_nsw.R
pal_nsw.Rd

Palettes created using the NSW Design System. There are several named palettes which can be specified with palette. To use palettes based on the NSW Design System colour grid, either specify hue and allow the shade to vary, or specify shade to allow the hue to vary. To use the Aboriginal colour grid, specify variant = "aboriginal".

Usage

nsw_colours

pal_nsw(
  palette = waiver(),
  hue = NA,
  shade = NA,
  variant = c("base", "aboriginal"),
  direction = 1
)

Arguments

palette

Name of the palette: default, brand_default, neg_to_pos, colour_blind.

hue

Name or index of the hue - see Details. Ignored if palette is specified.

shade

Name or index of the shade - see Details. Ignored if palette is specified.

variant

Name of palette variant. Ignored unless hue or shade is specified.

direction

Set to -1 to reverse the order of colours in the palette, or 1 for the original order.

Value

A palette object (see palette constructors)

Details

The "base" variant supports:

  • hue: greys, greens, teals, blues, purples, fucshias, reds, oranges, yellows, browns

  • shade: dark, normal, light, lighter

The "aboriginal" variant supports:

  • hue: reds, oranges, browns, yellows, greens, blues, purples, greys

  • shade: dark, normal, light, lighter

Anchor colours used to create the NSW colour palettes can also be used stand-alone (e.g. nsw_colours$blue_01 returns the hex code "#002664").

Examples

library(scales)

pal_nsw() |> show_col()

pal_nsw(hue = "blues") |> show_col()

pal_nsw(hue = "reds", direction = -1) |> show_col()

pal_nsw(shade = "light") |> show_col()

pal_nsw(shade = "normal", variant = "aboriginal") |> show_col()


# you can interpolate colours by converting to a continuous scale
pal_nsw(hue = "blues") |> as_continuous_pal() |> show_col()