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mcgill_muted provides the muted colours of McGill University, Canada.

Usage

mcgill_muted

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 muted colours are "muted 1" (defined as CMYK 13/72/76/2, RGB 211/103/74, HEX #D3674A), "muted 2" (defined as CMYK 0/20/90/10, RGB 232/185/46, HEX #E8B92E), "muted 3" (defined as CMYK 86/35/40/6, RGB 8/127/140, HEX #087F8C), "muted 4" (defined as CMYK 80/10/0/15, RGB 0/150/201, HEX #0096C9), "muted 5" (defined as CMYK 50/23/87/3, RGB 139/160/78, HEX #8BA04E), and "muted 6" (defined as CMYK 40/76/33/6, RGB 155/86/120, HEX #9B5678).

mcgill_muted uses the HEX colour definitions.

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 CMYK colour values differ from RGB and HEX definitions.

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_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_brights, mcgill_darks, mcgill_grey, 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_muted
#>   muted 1   muted 2   muted 3   muted 4   muted 5   muted 6 
#> "#D3674A" "#E8B92E" "#087F8C" "#0096C9" "#8BA04E" "#9B5678" 
unikn::seecol(mcgill_muted, main = "Muted colours of McGill") # view colour palette