unicol 0.4.0

unicol (v0.4.0) was published on CRAN [2025-09-02]:

• This version updates color palettes and improves package maintenance.

• The unicol package currently provides 273 color palettes from 116 institutions.

Changes since last release:

Major changes

• Corrected or updated color palettes:
  • Free University Berlin (Germany): fu_1, fu_2, fu_3, fu_4 (previous palettes are retained as fu_0_2023 to fu_3_2023)

Color palettes are linked to their online documentation of the current GitHub development version.

Details

• Provided package anchors for all Rd \link{} targets (to comply with CRAN requirements).

The development version of unicol is available at https://github.com/hneth/unicol/.

unicol 0.3.0

unicol (v0.3.0) was published on CRAN. [2024-05-01]

This version adds new color palettes and improves package maintenance.

The unicol package currently provides 269 color palettes from 116 institutions.

Changes since last release:

Major changes

• New color palettes:
  • Aalto University (Finland): aalto_1, aalto_2
  • Aarhus University (Denmark): aarhus
  • Lund University (Sweden): lund_1, lund_2, lund_3
  • Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany): uni_halle
  • University of Bangor (Wales, UK): bangor_1, bangor_2, bangor_3, bangor_4
  • University of Bergen (Norway): bergen_1, bergen_2, bergen_3, bergen_4
  • University of Copenhagen (Denmark): ku_1, ku_2
  • University of Gothenburg (Sweden): gothenburg
  • University of Helsinki (Finland): helsinki_1, helsinki_2, helsinki_3
  • University of Magdeburg (Germany): uni_magdeburg_1, uni_magdeburg_2, uni_magdeburg_3
  • University of Oslo (Norway): oslo
  • University of Stirling (Scotland, UK): stirling_1, stirling_2, stirling_3
  • University of Stockholm (Sweden): stockholm_1, stockholm_2
  • Uppsala University (Sweden): uppsala

• Corrected or updated color palettes:
  • Columbia University (USA): 3 new color palettes (columbia_1, columbia_2, columbia_3) replace the former columbia_v0 palette

Minor changes

• rename colors and color palettes (for consistency and simplicity)

• replace logo image

Details

• improve documentation and examples

The development version of unicol is available at https://github.com/hneth/unicol/.

unicol 0.2.0

unicol (v0.2.0) was published on CRAN. [2023-09-15]

This version adds and updates color palettes, but also improves consistency, simplicity, and fixes some bugs.

The unicol package currently provides 236 color palettes from 102 institutions.

Changes since last release:

Major changes

• New color palettes:
  • Aberystwyth University (Wales, UK): aberystwyth_1, aberystwyth_2
    
  • Cardiff University (Wales, UK): cardiff_1, cardiff_2
  • Macquarie University (Australia): mq_1, mq_2
  • Maynooth University (Ireland): maynooth
  • Ohio University (USA): ohio_uni_1, ohio_uni_2
  • University College Cork (Ireland): ucc_1, ucc_2
  • University College Dublin (Ireland): ucd
  • University of Auckland (New Zealand): auckland_1, auckland_2
  • University of Groningen (Netherlands): groningen_1, groningen_2
  • University of Lisbon (Portugal): uni_lisbon
  • University of Otago (New Zealand): otago
  • University of Nottingham (England, UK): nottingham_1, nottingham_2, nottingham_3
  • University of Wollongong (Australia): wollongong_1, wollongong_2
  • Willamette University (USA): willamette

• Corrected or updated color palettes:
  • Humboldt University Berlin (Germany): hu_1, hu_1_digital, hu_2, hu_3_accent (previous palettes are now hu_1_2022 and hu_2_2022)
  • Trinity College Dublin (Ireland): trinity_2 has been corrected
  • UCLA (USA): added ucla_4 for creating color gradients

Minor changes

• rename many color palettes (to improve simplicity, reduce redundancy)

• classify palettes by country/region

Details

• fixed bugs and re-structured code

• updated meta-data and online documentation

unicol 0.1.0

R package unicol (v0.1.0) was published on CRAN. [2023-08-16]

The unicol package initially provides 202 color palettes from 86 institutions.

[File NEWS.md updated on 2025-09-02.]