# paletteer

🎨🎨🎨 Collection of most color palettes in a single R package

Repository: https://github.com/EmilHvitfeldt/paletteer
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/paletteer
Homepage: https://emilhvitfeldt.github.io/paletteer/
Language: R
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: rstats, r, color-palette, palettes
Last push: 2026-01-08T06:13:55+00:00
Link (homepage): https://emilhvitfeldt.github.io/paletteer/

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 59/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 61, release rhythm 33, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2993, "days_push": 237, "days_rel": 237, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1040, forks 53 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:20.406069+00:00)

## What it is
paletteer is an R package providing a unified interface to thousands of color palettes collected from dozens of R packages, with discrete, dynamic, and continuous palette support. Its companion repository r-color-palettes is a comprehensive browsable showcase of all these palettes.

## Use cases
- find a color palette for ggplot2 plots
- access thousands of R color palettes through one package
- browse color palettes visually before choosing one
- get continuous color scales for heatmaps
- apply consistent color schemes across multiple R visualizations
- pick qualitative palettes for categorical data

## When to choose
- you work in R and need a wide variety of color palettes with a single consistent API
- you want to avoid installing many palette packages individually
- you need both discrete and continuous palettes for ggplot2 or base graphics

## When to avoid
- you need palettes in Python, JavaScript, or another language
- you only need one specific palette system already available in a smaller dedicated package
- you require a permissive license - the repo has no explicit license

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: data-visualization, charts
- domain: data-visualization, data-science
- platform: -
- tags: color-palettes, ggplot2, r-package, colors, r

## Member repositories
- EmilHvitfeldt/paletteer (main) score 59
- EmilHvitfeldt/r-color-palettes (docs) score 70

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:20.406069+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:34:40.238693+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/EmilHvitfeldt/paletteer (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:20.406069+00:00, sha 59958d9af148)
  - homepage: https://emilhvitfeldt.github.io/paletteer/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:10:35.385119+00:00, sha 22af5f842494)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.