Color Palette Finder

paletteer is one of my favorite R packages. It consolidates all available color palettes in the R ecosystem into a single package.

This means you can access over 2500 palettes with just one line of code.

The palettes are categorized as continuous or qualitative. The R Graph Gallery has a dedicated page to help you get started.

To use paletteer, the basic syntax looks like this:

# Load necessary libraries
library(ggplot2)
library(paletteer)

# Load the data
df <- read.csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/holtzy/The-Python-Graph-Gallery/master/static/data/simple-scatterplot.csv")

# Create the ggplot
ggplot(df, aes(x = gdpPercap, y = lifeExp, size = pop, color = continent)) +
  geom_point(size=10) +
  scale_color_paletteer_d("nationalparkcolors::Acadia") +
  theme(legend.position = "none")
        

Accessing over 2500 colors is fantastic, but having an efficient tool to explore them is essential.

That's why I created this tool! Here's how it works:

• Main selector button allows you to choose from any of the 2500+ palettes and see them applied in action across 7 different ggplot2 charts.


• Hover over any chart to view it in fullscreen mode or to get its reproducible code snippet, ready for use.


• Use the filter button to narrow your search by palette type (categorical or continuous), palette length, or even filter palettes similar to a specific color you choose.


• Use your keyboard's right and left arrow keys for blazing-fast palette browsing.


• Check how color-blind individuals would perceive each palette.


• Share any specific palette you like with others or export its hex colors as a string.

Bonus: Discover a "surprise me" button that randomly selects a palette for you!