prakriti: Color Palettes Inspired by India's Natural Landscapes

Curated color palettes drawn from India's natural beauty - Himalayan snow, Thar dunes, Kerala backwaters, Andaman reefs, Spiti's cold desert, Kashmir's autumn chinar, and more. Provides discrete and continuous palettes with first-class 'ggplot2' integration through scale_color_prakriti() and scale_fill_prakriti(), plus base graphics helpers for displaying palettes.

Version:	0.1.4
Depends:	R (≥ 4.0)
Imports:	grDevices, graphics, ggplot2 (≥ 3.4.0)
Suggests:	testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, pkgdown, patchwork
Published:	2026-05-20
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.prakriti
Author:	Arijit Ghosh [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Arijit Ghosh <arijitghosh2009 at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/orijitghosh/prakriti/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://orijitghosh.github.io/prakriti/, https://github.com/orijitghosh/prakriti
NeedsCompilation:	no
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	prakriti results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	prakriti.html , prakriti.pdf
Vignettes:	Palette gallery (source, R code) Getting started with prakriti (source, R code) Recipes: qualitative palettes (source, R code) Recipes: sequential and diverging palettes (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	prakriti_0.1.4.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: prakriti_0.1.4.zip, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: prakriti_0.1.4.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): prakriti_0.1.4.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): prakriti_0.1.4.tgz, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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