prakriti: Color Palettes Inspired by India's Natural Landscapes

Curated color palettes drawn from India's natural beauty - Himalayan snow, Thar dunes, Kerala backwaters, Andaman reefs, Spiti's cold desert, Kashmir's autumn chinar, and more. Provides discrete and continuous palettes with first-class 'ggplot2' integration through scale_color_prakriti() and scale_fill_prakriti(), plus base graphics helpers for displaying palettes.

Version: 0.1.4
Depends: R (≥ 4.0)
Imports: grDevices, graphics, ggplot2 (≥ 3.4.0)
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, pkgdown, patchwork
Published: 2026-05-20
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.prakriti (may not be active yet)
Author: Arijit Ghosh [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Arijit Ghosh <arijitghosh2009 at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/orijitghosh/prakriti/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://orijitghosh.github.io/prakriti/, https://github.com/orijitghosh/prakriti
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: prakriti results

Documentation:

Reference manual: prakriti.html , prakriti.pdf
Vignettes: Palette gallery (source, R code)
Getting started with prakriti (source, R code)
Recipes: qualitative palettes (source, R code)
Recipes: sequential and diverging palettes (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: prakriti_0.1.4.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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