National Parks Palettes

Color palettes inspired by National Parks.

NatParksPalettes is comprised of 30 color palettes, including 12 colorblind-friendly palettes, based on photos of national parks from around the world. Compatible with {ggplot2} in R and QGIS.

For more National Parks inspired palettes, see the nationalparkcolors package. Palettes converted to .xml with Convert R palette to QGIS Style XML.

Content

Installation

Palettes

Functions

Colorblind Checking

Install Package

R

NatParksPalettes is on CRAN and able to be downloaded in R. It can still be installed through GitHub.

# Install through CRAN
install.packages("NatParksPalettes")

# Install through GitHub
install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("kevinsblake/NatParksPalettes")

QGIS

From QGIS, open Settings Style Manager... expand the Import/Export drop-down menu and select Import Item(s).... Expand the Import from drop-down menu, select URL, and paste this URL:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kevinsblake/NatParksPalettes/main/GIS/NatParksPalettes.xml

Then select Fetch Items. Choose individual palettes or select Select All then select Import.

Usage

library(NatParksPalettes)

names(NatParksPalettes)
 [1] "Acadia"      "Arches"      "Arches2"     "Banff"       "BryceCanyon" "CapitolReef" "Charmonix"   "CraterLake"  "Cuyahoga"    "DeathValley" "Denali"     
[12] "Everglades"  "Glacier"     "GrandCanyon" "Halekala"    "IguazuFalls" "KingsCanyon" "LakeNakuru"  "Olympic"     "Redwood"     "RockyMtn"    "Saguaro"    
[23] "SmokyMtns"   "SouthDowns"  "Torres"      "Triglav"     "WindCave"    "Volcanoes"   "Yellowstone" "Yosemite"

Palettes

All Palettes

Acadia NP, USA

• Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse on Mount Desert Island, Jon Bilous, Dreamstime, LINK
• Colorblind-Friendly

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Arches NP, USA

• Delicate Arch with the La Sal Mountains in the background, Depositphotos, LINK
• Colorblind-Friendly

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Arches NP (2), USA

• Delicate Arch evening, Lavish Singal LINK
• Colorblind-Friendly

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Banff NP, Canada

• Moraine Lake, Andy Holmes, LINK

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Bryce Canyon NP, USA

• Sunrise Point, LINK
• Colorblind-Friendly

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Capitol Reef NP, USA

• Chinle Formation, NPS, LINK
• Colorblind-Friendly

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Charmonix-Mont-Blanc NP, France

• Aiguille du Midi, LINK

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Crater Lake NP, USA

• Crater Lake, NPS, LINK

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Cuyahoga NP, USA

• Buttermilk Falls, Benjamin Lehman / Flickr, LINK
• Colorblind-Friendly

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Death Valley NP, USA

• Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, LINK
• Colorblind-Friendly

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Denali NP, USA

• Getty Images, LINK

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Everglades NP, USA

• Aerial view, Getty Images, LINK

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Glacier NP, USA

• Inside an ice cave with blue ice, Kevin Haney, NPS, LINK
• Colorblind-Friendly

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Grand Canyon NP, USA

• Toroweap point at sunrise, Sumiko Scott, Shutterstock, LINK

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Halekala NP, USA

• Pele's Paint Pot, Jonathan Irish, National Geographic, LINK
• Colorblind-Friendly

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Iguazu Falls NP, Argentina & Brazil

• Iguazu Falls, LINK

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Kings Canyon NP, USA

• Karla Rivera, LINK
• Colorblind-Friendly

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Lake Nakuru NP, Kenya

• Flamingos in Lake Nakuu, LINK

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Olympic NP, USA

• Sol Duc, Scott Malagold, LINK

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Redwood NP, USA

• Boy Scout Tree Trail, Lana Law, LINK

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Rocky Mountain NP, USA

• Bear Lake, Estes Park, LINK

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Saguaro NP, USA

• NPS, LINK

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Smoky Mountains NP, USA

• Little River Road heading to Cades Cove, Norman Lathrop, LINK

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South Downs NP, UK

• Seven Sisters, John Harper/Corbis, LINK

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Torres del Paine NP, Chile

• Cordillera Paine mountains, LINK

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Triglav NP, Slovenia

• Triglav mountain, LINK
• Colorblind-Friendly

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Wind Cave NP, USA

• Cratework formation, NPS, LINK
• Colorblind-Friendly

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Hawai'i Volcanoes NP, USA

• Eruption, NPS Photo/Janice Wei, LINK
• Colorblind-Friendly

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Yellowstone NP, USA

• Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone’s Midway Geyser Basin, Grant Ordelheide, LINK

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Yosemite NP, USA

• Yosemite Valley, Leanne Harjer, LINK

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Functions

You can retrieve palettes using various methods listed below.
natparks.pals(name="DeathValley",n=7,type="discrete")

natparks.pals("Yellowstone", 5)

natparks.pals("Olympic")

.png)

natparks.pals("Glacier",n=15,type="continuous")

natparks.pals("Arches",n=100)

ggplot2 Examples

Here are also some ways you can incorporate this package into {ggplot2}

ggplot(data=iris, aes(x=Species, y=Petal.Length, fill=Species)) +
  geom_violin() +
  scale_fill_manual(values=natparks.pals("Yellowstone", 3))

ggplot(data=iris, aes(x=Sepal.Length, y=Sepal.Width, color=Species)) +
  geom_point(size=2) +
  scale_color_manual(values=natparks.pals("Banff", 3))

ggplot(data=iris, aes(x=Species, y=Sepal.Width, color=Sepal.Width)) +
  geom_point(size=3) +
  scale_color_gradientn(colors=natparks.pals("Arches2"))

Colorblind Friendly checking

The colorblind friendliness of all palettes have been checked using colorblindcheck. Those with [min_dist] >10 for all color vision deficiencies - deuteranopia, protanopia, and tritanopia - are considered colorblind friendly. You can list the colorblind-friendly palettes with the following code:

NatParksPalettes::colorblind_palettes
[1] "Acadia"      "Arches"      "Arches2"     "DeathValley" "Glacier"     "KingsCanyon"

You can also check if a specific palette is colorblind friendly using the function provided

NatParksPalettes::colorblind.friendly("DeathValley")
[1] TRUE