Studio Ghibli colour palettes
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ghibli 
Overview
“No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your
technology might be, the world cannot live without love!” —*Castle in
the Sky (1986)*
。◕‿‿◕。 Sprinkle some Studio Ghibli palette magic over your plots 。◕‿‿◕。

Installation
Install the latest stable version on CRAN…
r
install.packages('ghibli')
…or get the development version from GitHub.
r
install package from github
remotes::install_github("ewenme/ghibli")
Palettes

ghibli provides 9 unique palettes, with a light, medium and dark variant for each.
r
load package
library(ghibli)
display palettes w/ names
par(mfrow=c(9,3))
for(i in names(ghiblipalettes)) print(ghiblipalette(i))

N.B. the palettes are exposed in YAML format for easier porting to new libraries.
All colour palettes are stored as color objects (courtesy of the prismatic package) inside ghibli_palettes with extremely cute printing (if crayon is installed) and plotting methods to help you preview flavours.
In the wild
ghibli provides relevant scales for use with ggplot2. It only suggests ggplot2 in order to stay lightweight, but if available you can use the scale[colour|fill]ghibli_[c|d]() functions:
r
library(ggplot2)
ggplot stuff
ggplot(iris, aes(Sepal.Length, Sepal.Width, color = Species)) +
geom_jitter(size = 3) +
theme_minimal() +
# ghibli stuff
scalecolourghibli_d("LaputaMedium", direction = -1)

Other stuff
- Get citation information for ghibli in R with
citation(package = 'ghibli')
- Please note that the ghibli project is released with a Contributor
- This package was largely inspired by Karthik Ram’s
wesanderson
- The palettes themselves come from Movies in
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