Sort a vector of colors using one or more color attributes

Source: R/colorjam-subset.R

Sort a vector of colors using one or more color attributes

sort_colors(
  x,
  ...,
  alpha = TRUE,
  byCols = c("H", "C", "L"),
  return_type = c("colors", "df")
)

Arguments

x

character vector of R colors

...

any valid criteria to subset the color data.frame.

alpha

logical indicating whether to retain alpha transparency in intermediate operations. When alpha=FALSE then all color transparency is ignored, and colors will be returned with no transparency.

byCols

character vector of colnames to sort after the subset operation.

return_type

character string to define the return object, where return_type="colors" returns a character vector of colors, and return_type="df" returns a data.frame with the additional subset colnames included for review.

Value

character vector of colors that meet the filter criteria. When return_type="df" the returned object is a data.frame with the subset columns included for review.

Details

This function is an extension of subset_colors() except that it applies a sort order to the results.

The input colors in x are converted internally to a data.frame with colnames added by relevant helper functions.

  • "num" contains the integer index of the input vector x.

  • "hex" contains character values with hexadecimal colors including alpha. If the input x is "red" then the hex value will be converted to "#FF0000FF".

Added by jamba::col2hcl()

  • "H" contains color hue as values from 0 to 360.

  • "C" contains color chroma (aka saturation) ranging from 0 up to 200, where typical "full saturation" is represented as values above 100.

  • "L" contains color luminance (brightness/lightness) ranging from 0 to 100.

  • "alpha" the alpha transparency, ranging from 0 (fully transparent) to 1 (fully opaque, not transparent).

Added by grDevices::col2rgb()

  • "red" contains the red color channel, values range from 0 to 255.

  • "green" contains the green color channel, values range from 0 to 255.

  • "blue" contains the blue color channel, values range from 0 to 255.

Added by jamba::col2hsv()

  • "h" contains color hue as values from 0 to 1. Note these values may not map directly to color hue obtained from jamba::col2hcl().

  • "s" contains color saturation with values from 0 to 1.

  • "v" contains color vibrance (brightness/lightness) with values from 0 to 1.

See also

Other colorjam sort: colors_to_df(), subset_colors()

Other colorjam core: blend_colors(), closestRcolor(), closest_named_color(), color_complement(), colors_to_df(), group2colors(), rainbowJam(), subset_colors()

Examples

# subset for blue colors
jamba::showColors(subset_colors(colors(), H > 200 & H < 265 & C > 80))


# subset for saturated colors
jamba::showColors(subset_colors(colors(), C > 120))


# subset for saturated colors then sort by hue
jamba::showColors(subset_colors(colors(), C > 120, byCols=c("H", "-C", "-L")))


# review the data.frame itself
subset_colors(colors(), C > 135, return_type="df")
#>     num       hex         H        C        L alpha red green blue          h
#> 33   33 #FF4040FF  12.17399 150.2912 57.37031     1 255    64   64 0.00000000
#> 34   34 #EE3B3BFF  12.17399 140.5642 53.62872     1 238    59   59 0.00000000
#> 134 134 #FF3030FF  12.17399 161.4305 55.67937     1 255    48   48 0.00000000
#> 135 135 #EE2C2CFF  12.17399 150.9062 52.02483     1 238    44   44 0.00000000
#> 254 254 #00FF00FF 127.72355 135.7804 87.73472     1   0   255    0 0.33333333
#> 255 255 #00FF00FF 127.72355 135.7804 87.73472     1   0   255    0 0.33333333
#> 450 450 #FF00FFFF 307.72355 137.4048 60.32421     1 255     0  255 0.83333333
#> 451 451 #FF00FFFF 307.72355 137.4048 60.32421     1 255     0  255 0.83333333
#> 503 503 #FF4500FF  16.75931 157.7440 57.58173     1 255    69    0 0.04509804
#> 504 504 #FF4500FF  16.75931 157.7440 57.58173     1 255    69    0 0.04509804
#> 505 505 #EE4000FF  16.79545 147.3569 53.86741     1 238    64    0 0.04481793
#> 552 552 #FF0000FF  12.17399 179.0414 53.24079     1 255     0    0 0.00000000
#> 553 553 #FF0000FF  12.17399 179.0414 53.24079     1 255     0    0 0.00000000
#> 554 554 #EE0000FF  12.17399 167.1939 49.71777     1 238     0    0 0.00000000
#> 555 555 #CD0000FF  12.17399 143.7236 42.73850     1 205     0    0 0.00000000
#>             s         v     hsl_h     hsl_s    hsl_l
#> 33  0.7490196 1.0000000   0.00000 100.00000 62.54902
#> 34  0.7521008 0.9333333   0.00000  84.03756 58.23529
#> 134 0.8117647 1.0000000   0.00000 100.00000 59.41176
#> 135 0.8151261 0.9333333   0.00000  85.08772 55.29412
#> 254 1.0000000 1.0000000 120.00000 100.00000 50.00000
#> 255 1.0000000 1.0000000 120.00000 100.00000 50.00000
#> 450 1.0000000 1.0000000 300.00000 100.00000 50.00000
#> 451 1.0000000 1.0000000 300.00000 100.00000 50.00000
#> 503 1.0000000 1.0000000  16.23529 100.00000 50.00000
#> 504 1.0000000 1.0000000  16.23529 100.00000 50.00000
#> 505 1.0000000 0.9333333  16.13445 100.00000 46.66667
#> 552 1.0000000 1.0000000   0.00000 100.00000 50.00000
#> 553 1.0000000 1.0000000   0.00000 100.00000 50.00000
#> 554 1.0000000 0.9333333   0.00000 100.00000 46.66667
#> 555 1.0000000 0.8039216   0.00000 100.00000 40.19608

# for curiosity, compare H to h
colors_df <- subset_colors(colors(),
   C > 20,
   byCols=c("C"),
   return_type="df");
plot(colors_df$h, colors_df$H,
   xlab="hsv hue h",
   ylab="HCL hue H",
   pch=20,
   cex=colors_df$s * 1 + 1,
   col=colors_df$hex);
title("Comparison of HCL hue H\nwith hsv hue h")


plot(colors_df$s, colors_df$C,
   xlab="hsv saturation s",
   ylab="HCL chroma C",
   pch=20,
   cex=colors_df$s * 1 + 1,
   col=colors_df$hex);
title("Comparison of HCL C\nwith hsv s")


plot(colors_df$v, colors_df$L,
   xlab="hsv vibrance v",
   ylab="HCL luminance L",
   pch=20,
   cex=colors_df$s * 1 + 1,
   col=colors_df$hex);
title("Comparison of HCL L\nwith hsv v")