Primer color scales — scale_color

See pal_primer() for details.

Usage

scale_color_primer(palette = c("mark17"), alpha = 1, ...)

scale_colour_primer(palette = c("mark17"), alpha = 1, ...)

scale_fill_primer(palette = c("mark17"), alpha = 1, ...)

Arguments

palette: Palette type. Currently there is one available option: "mark17" (17-color palette).
alpha: Transparency level, a real number in (0, 1]. See alpha in grDevices::rgb() for details.
...: Additional parameters for ggplot2::discrete_scale().

References

GitHub (2025). "Primer data visualization colors." https://primer.style/product/ui-patterns/data-visualization/

Author

Nan Xiao | me@nanx.me | https://nanx.me

Examples

example_scatterplot() + scale_color_primer()
#> `geom_smooth()` using formula = 'y ~ x'

example_barplot() + scale_fill_primer()