• color() now maintains the names of the input vector, allowing plot() to use the color names rather than the hex values when label = TRUE. You can also provide label with a custom set of color labels. Unnamed colors are labelled with their hex values (@gadenbuie, #27).

  • Printing color objects is now powered by cli, which has superseded crayon (jack-davison, #28).

  • Fixed documentation to be HTML5 friendly.
  • Add extraction functions.
  • best_contrast() has been added, and can be used to find the best contrasted colors.
  • All functions now accepts zero length input.
  • Added contrast_ratio() function to calculate contrast ratios between colors. (#18)
  • Added modify_hcl() function to modify individual HCL axes. (#20)

Breaking changes

  • clr_rotate() now uses HCL instead of HSL as its color space for rotation. (#19)
  • clr_lightness() and clr_darken() now uses HCL instead of HSL as its default color space. (#19)
  • Added clr_alpha() function to specify transparency. (#9)
  • Added labels argument to plot.colors() to show hexcode in plot. (#8)
  • clr_rotate()’s argument degrees now default to 0.
  • clr_mix()’s argument ratio now correctly takes varied lengths as the argument.
  • added check_color_blindness() to allow quick visual color deficiency examination. (#11)
  • Release on CRAN