RadicalStyle.md

Radical Style

Evryone has it's own style. Here are some resources that we have used sueccefully in the past, and can be useful in the future.

3 colors that play well toguether:

• Office green
  • hex: #008000
  • rgb: [0, 128, 0]
• Steel blue
  • hex: #4682b4
  • rgb: [70, 130, 180]
• Dark goldenrod
  • hex: #b8860b
  • rgb: [184, 134, 11]

And alternative to dark goldenrod:

• Orange
  • hex: #b8860b
  • rgb: [230, 104, 38]

More colors:

The RColorBrewer package offers several color palette for R. For Diverging palettes we can use Set2.

But remember to check readbility and color-blindness compatibility!

install.packages("RColorBrewer") # CRAN version

library(RColorBrewer)

colors <- RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(n = my_n, name = "Set2") 

Icons:

Better use them in vectorial format.

Plants:

• Chamaemelum fuscatum
• Parapholis incurva

Pollinators:

• Bombus terrestris
• bee icons

Interesting links:

• Data viz by Dan Larremore.
• How to make your data POP by Paula Martín (EBD seminar series).