A Cheatsheet for Standard Colors in R

Finding nice colors to optimize your R plots is a standard task for every data scientist. I personally got tired of googling "R color cheatsheet" and settling with the incomplete or low quality versions I found there, so I made my own to fit all of my needs.

It is available in three high quality formats: png (600dpi), svg and pdf.

I created it with some data-wrangling of colors() and ggplot. Each tile shows the name and hex value of the color. Colors are sorted by hue. The text is written in either white or black depending on the brightness of the color. I used its RGB distance to black and defined a cutoff for that.

There are two versions of the cheatsheet:

Cheatsheet with Names and Hex Values

This main version includes names and hex values of each color on the left side of each tile.

Cheatsheet with large Labels

As the fontsize of each label was rather small, an alternative version of the cheatsheet includes centered labels only, but in larger font.