Sequential, diverging and qualitative colour scales from colorbrewer.org

The brewer scales provides sequential, diverging and qualitative colour schemes from ColorBrewer. These are particularly well suited to display discrete values on a map. See https://colorbrewer2.org for more information.

scale_pattern_colour_brewer(
  ...,
  type = "seq",
  palette = 1,
  direction = 1,
  aesthetics = "pattern_colour"
)

scale_pattern_fill_brewer(
  ...,
  type = "seq",
  palette = 1,
  direction = 1,
  aesthetics = "pattern_fill"
)

scale_pattern_fill2_brewer(
  ...,
  type = "seq",
  palette = 1,
  direction = 1,
  aesthetics = "pattern_fill2"
)

scale_pattern_colour_distiller(
  ...,
  type = "seq",
  palette = 1,
  direction = -1,
  values = NULL,
  space = "Lab",
  na.value = "grey50",
  guide = guide_colourbar(available_aes = "pattern_colour"),
  aesthetics = "pattern_colour"
)

scale_pattern_fill_distiller(
  ...,
  type = "seq",
  palette = 1,
  direction = -1,
  values = NULL,
  space = "Lab",
  na.value = "grey50",
  guide = guide_colourbar(available_aes = "pattern_fill"),
  aesthetics = "pattern_fill"
)

scale_pattern_fill2_distiller(
  ...,
  type = "seq",
  palette = 1,
  direction = -1,
  values = NULL,
  space = "Lab",
  na.value = "grey50",
  guide = guide_colourbar(available_aes = "pattern_fill2"),
  aesthetics = "pattern_fill2"
)

Arguments

...

Other arguments passed on to discrete_scale(), continuous_scale(), or binned_scale(), for brewer, distiller, and fermenter variants respectively, to control name, limits, breaks, labels and so forth.

palette

If a string, will use that named palette. If a number, will index into the list of palettes of appropriate type. The list of available palettes can found in the Palettes section.

direction, type, aesthetics, values, space, na.value, guide

See ggplot2::scale_colour_brewer for more information.

Value

A ggplot2::Scale object.

Details

The brewer scales were carefully designed and tested on discrete data. They were not designed to be extended to continuous data, but results often look good. Your mileage may vary.

Note

The distiller scales extend brewer to continuous scales by smoothly interpolating 7 colours from any palette to a continuous scale. The fermenter scales provide binned versions of the brewer scales.

Palettes

The following palettes are available for use with these scales:

Diverging

BrBG, PiYG, PRGn, PuOr, RdBu, RdGy, RdYlBu, RdYlGn, Spectral

Qualitative

Accent, Dark2, Paired, Pastel1, Pastel2, Set1, Set2, Set3

Sequential

Blues, BuGn, BuPu, GnBu, Greens, Greys, Oranges, OrRd, PuBu, PuBuGn, PuRd, Purples, RdPu, Reds, YlGn, YlGnBu, YlOrBr, YlOrRd

Modify the palette through the palette arguement.

Examples

  if (require("ggplot2")) {
    df <- data.frame(level = c("a", "b", "c", "d"),
                     outcome = c(2.3, 1.9, 3.2, 1))
    # discrete 'brewer' palette
    gg <- ggplot(df) +
      geom_col_pattern(
        aes(level, outcome, pattern_fill = level),
        pattern = 'stripe',
        fill    = 'white',
        colour  = 'black'
      ) +
      theme_bw(18) +
      scale_pattern_fill_brewer()
    plot(gg)

    # continuous 'distiller' palette
    gg <- ggplot(df) +
      geom_col_pattern(
        aes(level, outcome, pattern_fill = outcome),
        pattern = 'stripe',
        fill    = 'white',
        colour  = 'black'
      ) +
      theme_bw(18) +
      scale_pattern_fill_distiller()
    plot(gg)
  }