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Wall Street Journal color palette (discrete)

Source: R/wsj.R
wsj_pal.Rd

The Wall Street Journal uses many different color palettes in its plots. This collects a few of them, but is by no means exhaustive. Collections of these plots can be found on the WSJ Graphics X (formerly Twitter) feed and Pinterest.

Usage

wsj_pal(palette = "colors6")

Arguments

palette

A string, the color palette to use. One of "rgby", "red_green", "black_green", "dem_rep", "colors6".

Value

A palette function. It takes the number of colors n and returns a character vector of n hex colors, and can be used as the palette argument of ggplot2::discrete_scale().

Palettes

The following palettes are defined:

  • "rgby": red/green/blue/yellow theme.

  • "red_green": green/red two-color scale for good/bad.

  • "black_green": black-green 4-color scale for "very negative", "somewhat negative", "somewhat positive", "very positive".

  • "dem_rep": Democrat/Republican/Undecided blue/red/gray scale.

  • "colors6": red, blue, gold, green, orange, and black palette.

See also

Other color wsj: scale_colour_wsj()

Examples

wsj_pal()(6)
#> [1] "#c72e29" "#016392" "#be9c2e" "#098154" "#fb832d" "#000000"

scales::show_col(wsj_pal("rgby")(4))