karthik / wesanderson

A Wes Anderson color palette for R

Wes Anderson Palettes

I saved you from boring plots. What did you ever do? - Max Fischer (probably)

Tired of generic mass produced palettes for your plots? Short of adding an owl and dressing up your plot in a bowler hat, here’s the most indie thing you can do to one. First round of palettes derived from the amazing Tumblr blog Wes Anderson Palettes.

Installation

install.packages("wesanderson")

Or the development version

devtools::install_github("karthik/wesanderson")

Usage

library("wesanderson")

# See all palettes
names(wes_palettes)
#>  [1] "BottleRocket1"  "BottleRocket2"  "Rushmore1"      "Rushmore"      
#>  [5] "Royal1"         "Royal2"         "Zissou1"        "Darjeeling1"   
#>  [9] "Darjeeling2"    "Chevalier1"     "FantasticFox1"  "Moonrise1"     
#> [13] "Moonrise2"      "Moonrise3"      "Cavalcanti1"    "GrandBudapest1"
#> [17] "GrandBudapest2" "IsleofDogs1"    "IsleofDogs2"    "FrenchDispatch"
#> [21] "AsteroidCity1"  "AsteroidCity2"  "AsteroidCity3"

Palettes

Bottle Rocket (1996)

wes_palette("BottleRocket1")

wes_palette("BottleRocket2")

Rushmore (1998)

wes_palette("Rushmore1")

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

wes_palette("Royal1")

wes_palette("Royal2")

library("ggplot2")
ggplot(mtcars, aes(factor(cyl), fill=factor(vs))) +  geom_bar() +
  scale_fill_manual(values = wes_palette("Royal1"))

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

wes_palette("Zissou1")

pal <- wes_palette("Zissou1", 21, type = "continuous")
image(volcano, col = pal)

pal <- wes_palette("Zissou1", 100, type = "continuous")
# heatmap is a local dataset
ggplot(heatmap, aes(x = X2, y = X1, fill = value)) +
  geom_tile() + 
  scale_fill_gradientn(colours = pal) + 
  scale_x_discrete(expand = c(0, 0)) +
  scale_y_discrete(expand = c(0, 0)) + 
  coord_equal() 

The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

wes_palette("Darjeeling1")

wes_palette("Darjeeling2")

Hotel Chevalier (2007)

wes_palette("Chevalier1")

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

wes_palette("FantasticFox1")

Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

wes_palette("Moonrise1")

wes_palette("Moonrise2")

wes_palette("Moonrise3")

Castello Cavalcanti (2013)

wes_palette("Cavalcanti1")

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

wes_palette("GrandBudapest1")

wes_palette("GrandBudapest2")

The Isle of Dogs (2018)

wes_palette("IsleofDogs1")

wes_palette("IsleofDogs2")

The French Distpatch (2021)

wes_palette("FrenchDispatch")

Asteroid City (2023)

wes_palette("AsteroidCity1")

wes_palette("AsteroidCity2")

wes_palette("AsteroidCity3")

As seen in these publications

• The environmental niche of the global high seas pelagic longline fleet Science Advances 08 Aug 2018

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• Lopus, S., & Frye, M. (2018). Visualizing Africa’s Educational Gender Gap. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 4, 237802311879595

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wesanderson's Issues

License?

What license is this under?

Improve error message for requesting too many colors

wes_palette('Royal2', 10L)
# Error in wesanderson::wes_palette("Royal2", 8L) : 
#   Number of requested colors greater than what palette can offer

would be helpful to know what the max is

exposed Latex on CRAN page...

....at the tumblr URL. Is that supposed to be there? Hard to imagine it's tolerated by CRAN, given recent comments about capitalisation, etc. Anyway, just curious.

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/wesanderson/index.html

Bottle Rocket coming soon!

Ha.

No issue, just wanted to tell you how much I love this package.

It's absolutely beautiful.

Feature Request: Input using NSE

Now the input is like wes_palette("BottleRocket1"), how about
wes_palette(BottleRocket1) using NSE like dplyr.

Because it helps use tab button to type the full name.

Possible to send an update to CRAN?

In the CRAN version manual we see that the palette choices are:

List of 15
$ GrandBudapest : chr [1:4] "#F1BB7B" "#FD6467" "#5B1A18" "#D67236"
$ Moonrise1 : chr [1:4] "#F3DF6C" "#CEAB07" "#D5D5D3" "#24281A"
$ Royal1 : chr [1:4] "#899DA4" "#C93312" "#FAEFD1" "#DC863B"
$ Moonrise2 : chr [1:4] "#798E87" "#C27D38" "#CCC591" "#29211F"
$ Cavalcanti : chr [1:5] "#D8B70A" "#02401B" "#A2A475" "#81A88D" ...
4 wes_palettes
$ Royal2 : chr [1:5] "#9A8822" "#F5CDB4" "#F8AFA8" "#FDDDA0" ...
$ GrandBudapest2: chr [1:4] "#E6A0C4" "#C6CDF7" "#D8A499" "#7294D4"
$ Moonrise3 : chr [1:5] "#85D4E3" "#F4B5BD" "#9C964A" "#CDC08C" ...
$ Chevalier : chr [1:4] "#446455" "#FDD262" "#D3DDDC" "#C7B19C"
$ Zissou : chr [1:5] "#3B9AB2" "#78B7C5" "#EBCC2A" "#E1AF00" ...
$ FantasticFox : chr [1:5] "#DD8D29" "#E2D200" "#46ACC8" "#E58601" ...
$ Darjeeling : chr [1:5] "#FF0000" "#00A08A" "#F2AD00" "#F98400" ...
$ Rushmore : chr [1:5] "#E1BD6D" "#EABE94" "#0B775E" "#35274A" ...
$ BottleRocket : chr [1:7] "#A42820" "#5F5647" "#9B110E" "#3F5151" ...
$ Darjeeling2 : chr [1:5] "#ECCBAE" "#046C9A" "#D69C4E" "#ABDDDE" ...

But here on GitHub we see slight differences in the names of the palettes:

# See all palettes
names(wes_palettes)
#>  [1] "BottleRocket1"  "BottleRocket2"  "Rushmore1"      "Royal1"        
#>  [5] "Royal2"         "Zissou1"        "Darjeeling1"    "Darjeeling2"   
#>  [9] "Chevalier1"     "FantasticFox1"  "Moonrise1"      "Moonrise2"     
#> [13] "Moonrise3"      "Cavalcanti1"    "GrandBudapest1" "GrandBudapest2"

The Rushmore vs Rushmore1 is causing some problems for me.

Can you push an update to CRAN so we have Rushmore1 on CRAN and on GitHub?

thanks!

Upcoming updates

Based on discussions with Hadley, I'm going to rework the package to stop mimicking the same style as RColorBrewer.

• I'll just add S3 methods to just plot any palette
• Avoid using get
• Add a whole slew of new palettes I've been painstakingly assembling (no longer from the tumblr)

If anyone has other suggestions, please add here. I'll leave this version as-is for RColorBrewer fans and bump up to version 2.

Error in wes_palette(n = 3, "GrandBudapest") : Palette not found.

ggplot(df, mapping = aes(published.on.the.dn, fill = published.on.the.dn) ) +
 geom_bar(stat = 'count') +
  labs(x = "Published on the DN?", 
       y = "Count", 
       title = TitleXYZ",
       fill = "Legend") +
  theme(plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5)) +
  scale_fill_manual((values=wes_palette(n = 3, "GrandBudapest")))

Error in wes_palette(n = 3, "GrandBudapest") : Palette not found.

R.version

OUTPUT:
platform       x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0   
arch           x86_64                      
os             darwin15.6.0                
system         x86_64, darwin15.6.0        
status                                     
major          3                           
minor          5.1                         
year           2018                        
month          07                          
day            02                          
svn rev        74947                       
language       R                           
version.string R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
nickname       Feather Spray  

No wesanderson colors after upgrading to RStudio Version 1.1.383

I re-installed the package and loaded it, but the plot is just greyscale. RColorBrewer is ok.

Also this when I tried to run code from http://www.sthda.com/

barplot(c(2,5,7), col=wes.palette(n=3, name="GrandBudapest"))
Error in wes.palette(n = 3, name = "GrandBudapest") :
could not find function "wes.palette"

CRAN Package Update Request

Can we get an updated CRAN package release with some of the more recently added color palettes?
Thanks!

Colour blindness

Hi!
Thanks for creating such a useful package.
One thing I'd like to pinpoint: I opened wes anderson palletes with Deuteranomaly colour blindenss sicknes filter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness#Anomalous_trichromacy and those palletes all look the same :) They are not adapted for people with Deuteranomaly colour blindenss sicknes (most common—6% of males, 0.4% of females).

Installation from Github fails

Hi

Cool package!

There's a "hadley" reference in the link when you try to install the dev version.

> devtools::install_github("karthik/wesanderson")
Installing github repo(s) karthik/wesanderson/master from hadley
Downloading karthik/wesanderson.zip from https://github.com/hadley/karthik/wesanderson/archive/master.zip
Error: client error: (404) Not Found

/Kenneth

Bug report

It is not possible to use the package without loading it:

wesanderson::wes.palette(4, "Royal1")
# Error in match(x, table, nomatch = 0L) : object 'namelist' not found

I had a quick poke, but it's not related to the LazyData field. I'm sure the answer is in
writing R extensions, but I can't find it.

five zissou colors ... too few

Error: Insufficient values in manual scale. 6 needed but only 5 provided.

Are you finding what you were looking for... out here with me? I hope so.

Correct citation

Hey, I used your package for my thesis and I would like to correctly cite your work. Can you give the needed information? Thanks again for you work!

wes.palette does not work when package not attached

It is not possible to use the package without loading it:

wesanderson::wes.palette(4, "Royal1")
# Error in match(x, table, nomatch = 0L) : object 'namelist' not found

I had a quick poke, but it's not related to the LazyData field. I'm sure the answer is in
writing R extensions, but I can't find it.

How to remove segment lines in stack bar chart

Hey,

I really like your package!

I started using it and for some reason when I draw stacked bar plots each segment gets lines around them. This problem only appeared after using the "wesanderson"-package.

ggplot(filterpie, aes(x=Sample, fill=species, y=Abundance))+ geom_col(aes(color=species, fill=species), position="fill")+ scale_fill_manual(values =wes_palette("BottleRocket1", 21, type = "continuous"))

Is there a way to remove this?

Out of date

The colors are out of date. I was wondering if anybody can take over this package and update this with new Wes Anderson color schemes.

Change master --> main

Change primary branch from master to main

?

Asteroid City Color Palettes

Hi, first I just want to say I'm a big fan of both this package and Wes Anderson's movies.

I was hoping the new movie Asteroid City would bring new color palettes, but it seems the tumblr blog has not been updated for some time now, so I took the liberty of creating a few palettes of my own in a fork of this repo.
In case there is interest in adding these to the package, I will open a pr.

Keep up the good work!

Update readme with published examples

see: https://twitter.com/ClarkGRichards/status/611382560384487424?t=1&cn=bWVudGlvbg%3D%3D&sig=09df77a0304f166299880477fbe314569700184c&al=1&refsrc=email&iid=e41ebe2f84c74406bb2d887841c0a5d9&autoactions=1434599937&uid=267256091&nid=4+1489

Thank you!!!

This is gold!!! I adore Wes Anderson films, R and design -- and what a great idea to put them all together! Yaaaaay! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!!!!

Choosing subsets from palette

I am wondering if there is a way to choose a specific subset from a palette. For example, if I am using GrandBudapest2 and would like to use the first and second color in scale_fill_manual and then use the third and fourth from the same palette in scale_color_manual. Is this possible?

Thank you!