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marquee vs teal.modules.hermes
A side-by-side editorial comparison of marquee and teal.modules.hermes — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
marquee vs teal.modules.hermes: at a glance
What is marquee?
marquee is filling in the typographic details — outlines, border types, real font metrics for underlines.
marquee renders markdown text onto R graphics devices, and backs element_marquee() and geom_marquee() in ggplot2. Development ran in a tight burst through August and September 2025: 1.1.0 added text outlines, a size shortcut and remote PNG/JPEG support, 1.2.0 added border and outline line types and moved underline placement onto font metrics, and 1.2.1 cleaned up the bugs those introduced.
What is teal.modules.hermes?
teal.modules.hermes stopped publishing release notes before it stopped releasing.
All three recent tags are automation output: a bump from 0.1.3.9017 to 0.1.4, a pre-release merge whose body is a list of file-path updates and co-author trailers, and an empty commit. The most recent is from October 2022.
marquee vs teal.modules.hermes: editorial side-by-side
marquee
0.0ANALYTICS
marquee is filling in the typographic details — outlines, border types, real font metrics for underlines.
◆ Current state
marquee renders markdown text onto R graphics devices, and backs element_marquee() and geom_marquee() in ggplot2. Development ran in a tight burst through August and September 2025: 1.1.0 added text outlines, a size shortcut and remote PNG/JPEG support, 1.2.0 added border and outline line types and moved underline placement onto font metrics, and 1.2.1 cleaned up the bugs those introduced.
◆ Where it's heading
The package is converging on typographic fidelity rather than new capability. Early work settled layout semantics — CSS margin collapsing, inline padding reserving space during shaping, devices without glyph support — and recent releases refine how decorations are drawn and measured. The naming cleanup in 1.2.0, border_size becoming border_width, reads as an API being tidied ahead of wider use rather than one still being explored.
◆ Prediction
Expect continued small releases sanding down rendering edge cases in ggplot2 contexts, since that is where the recent bug reports come from; nothing here signals a new feature area.
teal.modules.hermes
0.0ANALYTICS
teal.modules.hermes stopped publishing release notes before it stopped releasing.
◆ Current state
All three recent tags are automation output: a bump from 0.1.3.9017 to 0.1.4, a pre-release merge whose body is a list of file-path updates and co-author trailers, and an empty commit. The most recent is from October 2022.
◆ Where it's heading
The tags share the insightsengineering date-stamp and [skip vbump] convention, so the feed reports pipeline events rather than package changes — the one package-relevant line across all three is scda moving to Suggests. Nothing here indicates ongoing development.
◆ Prediction
There is nothing in these entries to project from; the package's actual state would have to be read from its NEWS file or commit history.
Alternatives to marquee and teal.modules.hermes
Other Analytics products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either marquee or teal.modules.hermes.
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Recent activity from marquee and teal.modules.hermes
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 11mo agomarqueeBug fixes for relative sizes, outlines and guide width
- 11mo agomarqueeBorder and outline line types; underlines follow font metrics
- 11mo agomarqueeRotated text width fixed; factor input supported
- 0y agomarqueeText outlines, size shortcuts and images from URLs
- 1y agomarquee1.0 settles margin collapsing and inline decoration spacing
- 3y agoteal.modules.hermes2022_10_13
- 3y agoteal.modules.hermes2022_08_16: [skip vbump] Merge pre-release to main (#276)
- 4y agoteal.modules.hermes2022_06_09: [skip vbump] (#256)
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between marquee and teal.modules.hermes?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. marquee and teal.modules.hermes are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is marquee better than teal.modules.hermes?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. marquee and teal.modules.hermes are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to marquee?
Top marquee alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "marquee alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/marquee for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to teal.modules.hermes?
Top teal.modules.hermes alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "teal.modules.hermes alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/teal-modules-hermes for the full list with editorial commentary on each.