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paletteer

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Comprehensive Collection of Color Palettes

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A palette aggregator that grows by absorbing other packages, not by changing shape

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◆Current state
paletteer collects colour palettes from across the R ecosystem behind one consistent interface, so users can reference any of them by a single name rather than installing each source package. Its function surface has been essentially fixed for years; what changes each release is the catalogue. Version 1.7.0 pulls in palettes from ButterflyColors, feathers, ggsci, khroma, PrettyCols, tayloRswift, blueycolors, amerika, Rdune and poisonfrogs, and tightens argument checking.
◆Where it's heading
This is a catalogue, and catalogues grow by ingestion. Every substantive release since 1.3.0 is a list of source packages absorbed, in batches of tens to low hundreds of palettes, with occasional maintenance on the metadata tables that describe them. Release cadence follows contributor pull requests rather than any internal roadmap — roughly one release every one to two years, each bundling whatever accumulated.
◆Prediction
Expect the same: another release when enough new source packages have been proposed, likely paired with further work on palettes_c_names and palettes_d_names, the only part of the package that has been iterated on for its own sake.

◆Recent moves

  1. 7mo ago

    Ten more source packages absorbed; argument checking tightened

    Adds palettes from ButterflyColors, feathers, ggsci, khroma, PrettyCols, tayloRswift, blueycolors, amerika, Rdune and poisonfrogs, backfills missing scico palettes, and makes argument checking more precise and uniform. Catalogue growth plus the one piece of non-catalogue maintenance in the release.

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  2. 2y ago

    Roughly 170 palettes added from seven art and design packages

    Absorbs vangogh, ButterflyColors, MoMAColors, PrettyCols, waRhol, MexBrewer and ltc. A pure catalogue release, weighted toward art-derived palettes.

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  3. 3y ago

    MetBrewer, NatParksPalettes and six more sources added

    Adds roughly 190 palettes across nine source packages, the largest single ingestion in the recent history. Same pattern as every other feature release: the interface is untouched, the catalogue widens.

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  4. 4y ago

    HTML5-friendly documentation fix

    A CRAN documentation compliance fix with no change to palettes or interface.

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  5. 5y ago

    ggprism and nbapalettes added; palette metadata enriched

    Adds around 215 palettes, dominated by nbapalettes and ggprism, and enriches palettes_c_names and palettes_d_names with more information. The metadata work is the rare release item aimed at how users find palettes rather than how many exist.

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  6. 5y ago

    soilpalettes, rockthemes and Manu palettes added

    A smaller ingestion of roughly 53 palettes from three source packages. Representative of the package's steady-state release.

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