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mcgill_pastels provides the pastel colours of McGill University, Canada.

Usage

mcgill_pastels

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 pastel colours are "pastel 1" (defined as CMYK 0/16/47/0, RGB 255/215/148, HEX #FFD794), "pastel 2" (defined as CMYK 0/2/52/0, RGB 255/241/147, HEX #FFF193), "pastel 3" (defined as CMYK 28/0/12/0, RGB 181/225/225, HEX #B5E1E1), "pastel 4" (defined as CMYK 20/0/2/0, RGB 200/234/245, HEX #C8EAF5), "pastel 5" (defined as CMYK 18/0/43/0, RGB 213/230/168, HEX #D5E6A8), and "pastel 6" (defined as CMYK 8/40/0/0, RGB 226/167/204, HEX #E2A7CC).

mcgill_pastels uses the HEX colour definition. CMYK colour differs from RGB and HEX 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.

See also

mcgill_red for the primary colour of McGill University; mcgill_brights for the bright 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_brights, mcgill_darks, mcgill_grey, mcgill_muted, 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_pastels
#>  pastel 1  pastel 2  pastel 3  pastel 4  pastel 5  pastel 6 
#> "#FFD794" "#FFF193" "#B5E1E1" "#C8EAF5" "#D5E6A8" "#E2A7CC" 
unikn::seecol(mcgill_pastels, main = "Pastel colours of McGill") # view colour palette