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mcgill_brights provides the bright colours of McGill University, Canada.

Usage

mcgill_brights

Format

An object of class character of length 6.

Source

Colour definitions are based on McGill's visual identity guide.

Value

A named vector of colours (HEX/HTML codes of type character).

Details

The bright colours are "bright 1" (defined as CMYK 0/50/100/0, RGB 247/148/29, HEX #F7941D), "bright 2" (defined as CMYK 0/15/100/0, RGB 255/212/0, HEX #FFD400), "bright 3" (defined as CMYK 70/0/30/0, RGB 39/189/190, HEX #27BDBE), "bright 4" (defined as CMYK 60/0/0/0, RGB 68/200/245, HEX #44C8F5), "bright 5" (defined as CMYK 35/0/100/0, RGB 178/210/53, HEX #B2D235), and "bright 6" (defined as CMYK 20/72/0/0, RGB 199/104/169, HEX #C768A9).

mcgill_brights uses the HEX colour definition.

McGill's secondary colours are not official, but rather suggested colours that cover a larger spectrum to complement the primary "McGill red". They can be used to add variety and contrast for headings, bullets, background and other graphic elements.

CMYK colour differs from RGB and HEX definition.

See also

mcgill_red for the primary colour of McGill University; mcgill_pastels for the pastel colours of McGill; mcgill_muted for the muted colours of McGill; mcgill_darks for the dark colours of McGill; mcgill_grey for the grey of McGill; seecol for viewing and comparing colour palettes; usecol for using colour palettes; simcol for finding similar colours; newpal for defining new colour palettes; grepal for finding named colours.

Other Canadian university color palettes: carleton, concordia_1, concordia_2, concordia_3, concordia_4, guelph, laval, manitoba_1, manitoba_2, mcgill_darks, mcgill_grey, mcgill_muted, mcgill_pastels, mcgill_red, mcmaster_brighterworld, mcmaster_heritage, mun_1, mun_2, queensu_1, queensu_2, sfu_brand, ubc, ucalgary_1, ucalgary_2, ucalgary_accent, ucalgary_warmgreys, uottawa, utoronto, uvic_1, uvic_2, uwaterloo_arts, uwaterloo_engineering, uwaterloo_environment, uwaterloo_health, uwaterloo_main, uwaterloo_math, uwaterloo_science, western_uni, yorku_1, yorku_2

Author

unicol, 2023-06-20.

Examples

mcgill_brights
#>  bright 1  bright 2  bright 3  bright 4  bright 5  bright 6 
#> "#F7941D" "#FFD400" "#27BDBE" "#44C8F5" "#B2D235" "#C768A9" 
unikn::seecol(mcgill_brights, main = "Bright colours of McGill") # view colour palette