tadaathemes

The goal of tadaathemes is to provide a bunch of reasonably neat ggplot2 themes.

Installation

You can install the released version of tadaathemes from CRAN with:

# install.packages("tadaathemes")

Examples

Include a (compact?) gallery of themes (or maybe move them to a dedicated pkgdown article)

# library(tadaathemes)

Additional Resources

• r-graph-gallery.com: For inspiration.
• calligross/ggthemeassist: RStudio addin for interactive theme tweaking.
• metrumresearchgroup/ggedit: Another RStudio addin
• wilkelab/cowplot: Just generally useful.
• thomasp85/patchwork: For plot layouts.

Themes

• hrbrmstr/hrbrthemes: For the good stuff.
• hrbrmstr/ggexpanse: Everyone needs more The Expanse.
• cttobin/ggthemr:
• jrnold/ggthemes: A classic collection of themes.
• delabj/ggCyberPunk: For the cyberpunk aesthetic.
• briandconnelly/lato: Simple themes with Lato font.
• nanxstats/ggsci: For looking sciency.
• nsgrantham/ggdark: Dark version of ggplot2 default themes.
• datarootsio/artyfarty: Unmaintained, but good for inspiration I guess.
• schochastics/Rokemon: Pokémon themes.
• Ryo-N7/tvthemes: TV show themes.
• moldach/vapoRwave: Everything is better with some ＶＡＰＯＲＷＡＶＥ
• xkcd: Because of course.

Colors

• EmilHvitfeldt/paletteer: Collection of color palettes.
• sjmgarnier/viridisLite: Viridis is the (at least my) preferred set of color scales for continuous variables
• coolors: Make your own color palettes easily (useful for qualitative palettes etc.).

Plotting with fonts (and text stuff)

• wilkelab/ggtext: Markdown text formatting in ggplot2! (WIP)
• r-lib/ragg: Alternative output device which, among general performance/quality improvements, also eases the inclusion of system fonts.
• rstudio/thematic (WIP): Auto-theming depending on context, easy styling using rstudio/bootstraplib in RMarkdown/shiny/RStudio(!). The latter is also WIP.
• yixuan/showtext: For plotting with fonts, including the easy inclusion of Google fonts.
• wch/extrafont: Probably maybe required to use fonts for PDF output (using cairo_pdf)? I still don’t quite understand it, but extrafont::loadfonts() tends to do more good than harm.

Reading

• Thread (with links) about dark themes and readability
  • https://uxmovement.com/content/why-you-should-never-use-pure-black-for-text-or-backgrounds/
  • https://markboulton.co.uk/journal/five-simple-steps-to-better-typography/
  • https://schlosslab.discovery.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SchlossGramazioSilvermanParkerWanginPress.pdf
  • https://www.nngroup.com/articles/dark-mode/