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mcgill_grey provides the cool grey of McGill University, Canada.

Usage

mcgill_grey

Format

An object of class character of length 1.

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 colour is "cool grey" (defined as CMYK 66/52/44/17, RGB 93/103/113, HEX #5D6770).

mcgill_grey 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.

Note that the 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_brights for the bright colours of McGill; mcgill_muted for the muted colours of McGill; mcgill_darks for the dark colours 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_brights, mcgill_darks, 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_grey
#> cool grey 
#> "#5D6770" 
unikn::seecol(mcgill_grey, main = "Cool grey of McGill") # view colour palette