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afcolours

Overview

afcolours is an R package which can be used produce the Analysis Function recommended colour palettes to help meet accessibility guidelines. See the Government Analysis Function website for more information.

afcolours can be used to return either hex or rgb codes using the colour_format argument

Installation

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

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("best-practice-and-impact/afcolours")

Example

This is a basic example of how to use afcolours with ggplot2:

library(afcolours)

data <- data.frame(x = c(1,2),
                   y = c(1,2),
                   z = c("a","b")
        )
ggplot2::ggplot(data, ggplot2::aes(x = x, y = y, colour = z)) +
ggplot2::geom_point() +
ggplot2::scale_colour_manual(values = af_colours("duo"))
}

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.