150 Color Palettes from Canva

150 four-color palettes by the canva.com design school. These palettes were derived from photos and "impactful websites".

Usage

canva_palettes

Format

A named list of character vector. The names are the palette names. The values of the character vectors are hex colors, e.g. "#f98866".

References

• Janie Kliever, 100 Brilliant Color Combinations and How to Apply Them to Your Designs, Canva.com, June 20, 2015.

• Mary Stribley, Website Color Schemes: The Palettes of 50 Visually Impactful Websites to Inspire You, Canva.com, January 26, 2016.

• Schwabish, Jonathan. 150+ Color Palettes for Excel, PolicyViz, January 12, 2017.

Examples

require("ggplot2")
require("tibble")
if (require("purrr") && require("scales") && require("dplyr")) {
  canva_df <- map2_df(
    canva_palettes,
    names(canva_palettes),
    ~ tibble(
      colors = .x,
      .id = seq_along(colors),
      palette = .y
    )
  )
  ggplot(canva_df, aes(
    y = palette,
    x = .id,
    fill = colors
  )) +
    geom_raster() +
    scale_fill_identity(guide = FALSE) +
    theme_minimal() +
    theme(
      panel.grid = element_blank(),
      axis.text.x = element_blank()
    ) +
    labs(x = "", y = "")

  show_col(canva_pal("Fresh and bright")(4))
  show_col(canva_pal("Cool blues")(4))
  show_col(canva_pal("Modern and crisp")(4))
}