Primary and bright colors of Caltech

caltech_pal_3 provides the primary and 7 bright colors of the California Institute of Technology, CA, USA.

caltech_pal_3

Format

An object of class character of length 8.

Source

Color definitions are based on https://identity.caltech.edu/colors.

Value

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

Details

Caltech's primary orange color is defined as Pantone MS 1585c (for coated and matte print jobs, PMS 151 for uncoated print jobs). Use this color for small highlights, rather than large areas.

Caltech's 7 bright colors provide an opportunity to adjust the temper of communication materials from subtle to bold. These colors should be used as carefully selected accents to the primary, neutral, and deep colors (of caltech_pal_1 and caltech_pal_2).

caltech_pal_1 for Caltech's primary and neutral colors; caltech_pal_2 for Caltech's primary and deep colors; 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 contributed color palettes: caltech_pal_1, caltech_pal_2, eth_pal_1, eth_pal_2, eth_pal_3, fu_pal_0, fu_pal_1, fu_pal_2, fu_pal_3, hu_pal_1, hu_pal_2, lmu_pal_1, lmu_pal_2, lmu_pal_3, mpg_pal, rpi_pal_1, rpi_pal_2, rpi_pal_3, rptu_pal, uni_bonn_1, uni_bonn_2, uni_freiburg_0, uni_freiburg_1, uni_freiburg_2, uni_freiburg_blue, uni_freiburg_br, uni_freiburg_grey, uni_freiburg_info, uni_goettingen_1, uni_goettingen_2, uni_goettingen_3, uni_hamburg_1, uni_hamburg_2, uni_jena_1, uni_jena_2, uni_kiel_1, uni_kiel_2, uni_koeln_1, uni_koeln_2, uni_konstanz_1, uni_konstanz_2, uni_mannheim_1, uni_mannheim_2, uni_princeton_0, uni_princeton_1, uni_princeton_2, uni_regensburg_1, uni_regensburg_2, uni_regensburg_3, uni_ulm_1, uni_ulm_2

Author

unikn, 2022-10-28.

Examples

caltech_pal_3
#> Caltech orange (PMS 1585c)         JPL red (PMS 186c) 
#>                  "#FF6C0C"                  "#E41937" 
#>                   PMS 299c                  PMS 7473c 
#>                  "#00A1DF"                  "#1E988A" 
#>                  PMS 7489c                  PMS 7408c 
#>                  "#73A950"                  "#F9BE00" 
#>                   PMS 605c                  PMS 1915c 
#>                  "#E2CC00"                  "#F54D80" 
seecol(caltech_pal_3, main = "Primary and bright colors of Caltech")

demopal(caltech_pal_3, type = 3, seed = 1,  
        main = "Using the primary and bright colors of Caltech")