--- title: "Pomological Colors" author: "Garrick Aden-Buie" date: "2/4/2018" output: github_document editor_options: chunk_output_type: console --- ```{r setup, include=FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE, fig.width=8, fig.height=5) library(ggpomological) library(dplyr) ``` ## Pomological Plots [rstudioconf]: https://www.rstudio.com/conference/ [t-aronatkins]: https://twitter.com/aronatkins [rsconf-slides]: https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio-conf/tree/master/2018/Fruit_For_Thought--Aron_Atkins [rsconf-video]: https://youtu.be/Ol1FjFR2IMU?t=5h21m15s [usda-pom]: https://usdawatercolors.nal.usda.gov/pom [t-pomological]: https://twitter.com/pomological [magick]: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/magick/index.html This package provides a ggplot2 theme inspired by the [USDA Pomological Watercolors collection][usda-pom] and by Aron Atkins's ([\@aronatkins][t-aronatkins]) [talk on parameterized RMarkdown][rsconf-video] at [rstudio::conf 2018][rstudioconf]. ![](Readme_files/figure-gfm/plot-bar-chart-painted.png) ![](Readme_files/pom-examples.jpg) ## Installation ```r # If you don't have devtools installed install.packages("devtools") devtools::install_github("gadenbuie/ggpomological") ``` ## Color Palette The colors for this theme were drawn from many images from the [USDA Pomological Watercolors collection][usda-pom], I chose just a few that I thought worked well together for color and fill scales ```{r} scales::show_col(ggpomological:::pomological_palette) ``` and a few colors for the plot background and decoration ```{r} scales::show_col(unlist(ggpomological:::pomological_base)) ``` I've also included a [css file](inst/pomological.css) with the complete collection of color samples. ## Setup theme and scales There are three theme-generating functions: - `theme_pomological()` sets the plot theme to be representative of the paper and styling of the watercolors and includes a paper-colored background, - `theme_pomological_nobg()` has the same styling, just with a transparent (or white) background, - `theme_pomological_plain()` has a white background and doesn't change the font unless requested. A handwriting font is needed for the fully authentic pomological look, and I found a few from Google Fonts that fit the bill. - [Homemade Apple](https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Homemade+Apple/) - [Amatic SC](https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Amatic+SC/) - [Mr. Bedfort](https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Mr+Bedfort/) Alternatively, use something like [calligrapher.com](https://www.calligraphr.com/) to create your own handwriting font! For color and fill scales, **ggpomological** provides `scale_color_pomological()` and `scale_fill_pomological()`. In the future, I might revisit this package to 1. Increase colors in discrete scale 2. Setup paired color scales. Lots of great color pairs in the extracted colors. 3. Set up continuous scale colors (we'll see...) ## Add paper background! **ggpomological** also provides a function named `paint_pomological` that uses the [`magick`][magick] package to add a pomological watercolor paper background and a subtle texture overlay. ## Demo! We'll need dplyr and ggplot2 (loaded with **ggpomological**) ```r library(ggpomological) library(dplyr) ``` ### Basic iris plot ```{r plot-demo} # Base plot basic_iris_plot <- ggplot(iris) + aes(x = Sepal.Length, y = Sepal.Width, color = Species) + geom_point(size = 2) # Just your standard Iris plot basic_iris_plot # With pomological theme basic_iris_plot + theme_pomological() + scale_color_pomological() # With transparent background pomological_iris <- basic_iris_plot + theme_pomological_nobg() + scale_color_pomological() pomological_iris # Without fonts pomological_iris + theme_pomological_plain() # Painted! paint_pomological(pomological_iris, res = 110) %>% magick::image_write("Readme_files/figure-gfm/plot-demo-painted.png") ``` ![](Readme_files/figure-gfm/plot-demo-painted.png) ### Stacked bar chart ```{r plot-bar-chart} stacked_bar_plot <- ggplot(diamonds) + aes(price, fill = cut) + geom_histogram(binwidth = 850) + xlab('Price (USD)') + ylab('Count') + scale_x_continuous(label = scales::dollar_format()) + scale_fill_pomological() stacked_bar_plot + theme_pomological() paint_pomological( stacked_bar_plot + theme_pomological_nobg(), res = 110 ) %>% magick::image_write("Readme_files/figure-gfm/plot-bar-chart-painted.png") ``` ![](Readme_files/figure-gfm/plot-bar-chart-painted.png) ### Density Plot ```{r plot-density} density_plot <- mtcars %>% mutate(cyl = factor(cyl)) %>% ggplot() + aes(mpg, fill = cyl, color = cyl)+ geom_density(alpha = 0.75) + labs(fill = 'Cylinders', colour = 'Cylinders', x = 'MPG', y = 'Density') + scale_color_pomological() + scale_fill_pomological() density_plot + theme_pomological() paint_pomological( density_plot + theme_pomological_nobg(), res = 110 ) %>% magick::image_write("Readme_files/figure-gfm/plot-density-demo-painted.png") ``` ![](Readme_files/figure-gfm/plot-density-demo-painted.png) ### Points and lines Data from the Texas Housing ```{r plot-full-bar-stack} big_volume_cities <- txhousing %>% group_by(city) %>% summarize(mean_volume = mean(volume, na.rm = TRUE)) %>% arrange(-mean_volume) %>% top_n(length(ggpomological:::pomological_palette)) %>% pull(city) full_bar_stack_plot <- txhousing %>% filter(city %in% big_volume_cities) %>% group_by(city, year) %>% summarize(mean_volume = mean(volume, na.rm = TRUE)) %>% ungroup %>% mutate(city = factor(city, big_volume_cities)) %>% ggplot() + aes(year, mean_volume, fill = city, group = city) + geom_col(position = 'fill', width = 0.9) + labs(x = 'City', y = 'Mean Volume', color = 'City') + theme(panel.grid.minor.x = element_blank()) + scale_fill_pomological() full_bar_stack_plot + theme_pomological() paint_pomological( full_bar_stack_plot + theme_pomological_nobg(), res = 110 ) %>% magick::image_write("Readme_files/figure-gfm/plot-full-bar-stack-painted.png") ``` ![](Readme_files/figure-gfm/plot-full-bar-stack-painted.png) ### One last plot Using my own handwriting and the `ggridges` package. ```{r plot-ridges} ridges_pomological <- ggplot(diamonds) + aes(x = carat, y = clarity, color = clarity, fill = clarity) + ggridges::geom_density_ridges(alpha = 0.75) + theme_pomological_nobg( base_family = 'gWriting', base_size = 20, base_theme = ggridges::theme_ridges() ) + scale_fill_pomological() + scale_color_pomological() paint_pomological(ridges_pomological, res = 110) %>% magick::image_write("Readme_files/figure-gfm/plot-ridges-painted.png") ``` ![](Readme_files/figure-gfm/plot-ridges-painted.png)