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uni_kiel_1 provides the primary violett color of Kiel University, Germany.

Usage

uni_kiel_1

Format

An object of class character of length 3.

Source

Color definitions are based on https://www.presse.uni-kiel.de/de/erscheinungsbild/farben.

Value

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

Details

The main color is the luminant violett of uni_kiel_1[2], which alludes to the historic founding faculty of theology. It is alternatively defined as RGB 155/10/125, Hex #9b0a7d, HKS 33, or CMYK 45/100/0/0.

The palette uni_kiel_1 enframes this color as its central element in "black" and "white" to easily enable mixing it with shades of "grey". See examples and the ac and usecol functions for creating color gradients.

The full name of Kiel University is Christian-Albrechts-Universität (CAU) zu Kiel.

Author

unicol, 2023-01-02.

Examples

uni_kiel_1
#>   schwarz   violett     weiss 
#>   "black" "#9b0a7d"   "white" 
unikn::seecol(uni_kiel_1, main = "The main color of Kiel University (CAU)")

unikn::demopal(uni_kiel_1, type = 3, main = "Primary colors of the University of Kiel")


# Gradient: Mixing the main color with shades of grey: 
N = 9
kiel_mix <- unikn::usecol(uni_kiel_1, n = N)[c(-1, -N)]  # remove extremes
unikn::seecol(kiel_mix, main = "A color gradient of Kiel University (CAU)")