Introducing...{metallicaRt}

I've created a fun little R package which is a collection of colour palettes based on Metallica album covers.

Each is named using an abbreviation of the relevant album, or a snippet of a song title from the album. In most cases, the song chosen is one of the stand out tracks.

Why?

Because I saw this post on Twitter.

But still, …why?

Because I’d already created a bunch of palettes manually for this post on my main blog, where I perform a sentiment analysis of Metallica song lyrics.

How?

I produced the palettes with 7 colours using an online tool, when I produced my blog post originally. I also put together the ‘combo’ palette.

Palettes that end with ‘10’ were created using colorfindr

I then found another online tool, which I used to create some more alternatives, although these are much smaller (4 colour palettes)

I need this in my life

Well of course you do.

This will not go to CRAN, so please install using the remotes package.
See the instructions on the package website for how to do this

Data Viz Friendly

These mini palettes might actually be useful.

All named after a song title from the relevant album.

Here is a small sample:

whiplash:

bells:

orion:

Getting more up to date, here comes ...
revenge:

Gimme fuel, gimme fire, longer palettes I desire*

(Maybe those are* the actual lyrics?..)

These contain more album specific colors, but might be of less practical use for data visualisation purposes, in some instances.

In the following section, you’ll see the 7 colour palette, then the longer 10 colour version.

Again, I'm not going to do all ten albums.

You can see them all on the package site

Master of Puppets:

Reload (I really like this one):

St. Anger:

Hardwired…To Self Destruct (Another personal favourite):

Metal up your palette

A nice wee combo of various colours from all the albums:

Credit

Thanks to Kelly Cotton for the nycpalettes package which this was extremely heavily based on.

Also, shout out to Anna Henschel for the original inspiration, and for positively reinforcing that this was a good idea.

Thanks very much to you both :)