named_colors from meodai/color-names and R colors()

named_colors including 4507 entries from Git "meodai/color-names" v11.0.0, and 436 entries from R colors().

Usage

named_colors

Format

a character vector with length 4943, containing hexadecimal colors named with human-assigned color names. Note that R colors are preceded by "R" in the name, for example "Rgreen2", and only include colors not already present in "meodai/color-names".

Processing

Named colors were obtained from the amazing Github repository meodai/color-names. This resource provided 30200 total named colors. A subset of 4507 color names were denoted "good names" and were included here.

R colors from grDevices::colors() whose hex values were not already included in the Meodai resource were added, after removing identical hex colors such as "darkred" and "red4". These R colors were named with prefix "R" so labels such as "darkred" became "Rdarkred". The "R" prefix was used to avoid name clashes, and to permit the Meodai color names to take precedence whenever the same name was used in both resources. The Meodai resource seemed visually preferable to similarly-named R grDevices::colors() such as "brown", and "chartreuse", however there could be benefit in using R color names since they appear to match the W3C color name standard used by HTML and CSS.

Source

https://github.com/meodai/color-names

See also

Other colorjam data: jam_divergent, jam_linear

Examples

color_pie(unname(colorjam::named_colors))


# subset for color chroma at least 30
colorjam::color_pie(unname(
   colorjam::subset_colors(colorjam::named_colors, C >= 30)))
title(main="named_colors with C >= 30")