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uni_manchester provides the three primary colours of the University of Manchester, England, UK.

Usage

uni_manchester

Format

An object of class character of length 3.

Source

Color definitions are based on the Manchester's visual identity.

Value

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

Details

The three primary colours are "Purple" (defined as C72 M100 Y0 K0, R109 G0 B157, HEX #660099), "Yellow" (defined as C0 M15 Y100 K0, R255 G204 B51, HEX #FFCC33), and "Grey" (defined as C0 M0 Y0 K50, R149 G149 B151, HEX #999999).

The purple should be used as a main colour with the grey and yellow to complement it.

uni_manchester uses the HEX color definitions. #' RGB color values differ from HEX definition. For "Purple" and "Grey" the RGB and HEX definitions differ numerically, yet are visually indistinguishable. Our color palette is based on the HEX definition.

Note that the University of Manchester is located in England / UK. and not to be confused with Manchester University, located in Indiana, USA.

See also

manchester_uni_1 for primary colors of Manchester University, IN, USA; manchester_uni_2 for accent colours of Manchester University, IN, USA; seecol for viewing and comparing color palettes; usecol for using color palettes; simcol for finding similar colours; newpal for defining new color palettes; grepal for finding named colours.

Other English university color palettes: birmingham, lancaster_1, lancaster_2, oxford_blog, oxford_brand, oxford_error, oxford_general, oxford_graduate, oxford_link, oxford_shades, oxford_socialmedia

Author

unicol, 2023-06-27.

Examples

uni_manchester
#>    Purple    Yellow      Gray 
#> "#660099" "#FFCC33" "#999999" 
unikn::seecol(uni_manchester, main = "University of Manchester, UK") # view color palette