Description

The Wall Street Journal uses many different color palettes in its plots. This collects a few of them, but is by no means exhaustive. Collections of these plots can be found on the WSJ Graphics Twitter feed and Pinterest.

Usage

Arguments

Palettes

The following palettes are defined,

rgby

Red/Green/Blue/Yellow theme. Examples: https://twitpic.com/b2e3v2. Up to four values.

red_green

Green/red two-color scale for good/bad. Examples: https://twitpic.com/b1avj6, https://twitpic.com/a4kxcl.

green_black

Black-green 4-color scale for 'Very negative', 'Somewhat negative', 'somewhat positive', 'very positive'. Examples: https://twitpic.com/awbua0.

dem_rep

Democrat/Republican/Undecided blue/red/gray scale. Examples: https://twitpic.com/awbua0.

colors6

Red, blue, gold, green, orange, and black palette. Examples: https://twitpic.com/9gfg5q.

See Also

Other colour wsj: scale_colour_wsj()