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stirling_2 provides 15 secondary colours of the University of Stirling, Scotland, UK.

Usage

stirling_2

Format

An object of class character of length 15.

Source

Color definitions are based on Stirling's Brand guide.

Value

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

Details

See Stirling's Brand guide for definitions and details.

stirling_2 uses the HEX color definitions.

The University of Stirling's secondary colour palette has been developed to create rhythm, pace and variety. It should be used to support the primary colours (stirling_1) and tertiary colours (stirling_3) with a 90

The primary and secondary colour palettes are made up of colour pairings: ‘Energy colours’ and ‘Heritage colours’. These can be used separately, mixed, or as the pairings suggested.

An additional colour Heritage gold, defined as Pantone 871 or CMYK 30, 35, 75, 22, should only used for printed materials.

Although an extensive colour palette provides with you many potential colour combinations, you must ensure that text is clearly legible and accessible so please select colours carefully. For instance, white text on a Heritage green background works well, whereas Heritage berry text on a Heritage green background is very difficult to read (see Brand guide example).

To add flexibility, users can use tints (70

See also

stirling_1 for primary colours of the University of Stirling; stirling_3 for tertiary colours of the University of Stirling; seecol for viewing and comparing color palettes; usecol for using color palettes; simcol for finding similar colors; newpal for defining new color palettes; grepal for finding named colors.

Other Scottish university color palettes: dundee_background, dundee_block, dundee_core, dundee_highlight, edinburgh, standrews_1, standrews_2, stirling_1, stirling_3

Author

unicol, 2023-09-16.

Examples

stirling_2
#>   Heritage teal Heritage yellow Heritage orange   Heritage blue   Heritage navy 
#>       "#005e63"       "#ecaa00"       "#e14504"       "#385dae"       "#14315e" 
#>  Heritage berry Heritage purple     Energy teal     Energy turq   Energy yellow 
#>       "#9d1e65"       "#31006f"       "#008996"       "#00A5AC"       "#f4c400" 
#>   Energy orange      Energy sky     Energy blue     Energy pink   Energy purple 
#>       "#FF6D00"       "#5fb4e5"       "#3d7dca"       "#E80068"       "#592c82" 
unikn::seecol(stirling_2, main = "Secondary colours of the University of Stirling") # view palette