HCL-Based Color Palettes

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2024
Being updated
Author

Steve Simon

Published

February 2, 2024

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A nice explanation of what the hcl color system is and why it produces better quality visualizations. The blog post also includes several interesting links.

  • Achim Zeileis, Paul Murrell. HCL-Based Color Palettes in grDevices. R developers blog, 2019-04-01. Available in html format.

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