On a whim, I created 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.

I am happy to enter into discussion about my choices 🙂

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 blog

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

Of course you do.

This will not go to CRAN, so please install using the remotes package.
See the instructions on the repo 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.

I’m only going to show a few here :

whiplash

bells

orion

revenge

Gimme fuel, gimme fire, longer palettes I desire

I hear ya.

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 readme

Master of Puppets

puppets

Reload

reload

St.Anger

anger

Hardwired…To Self Destruct

hardwired

Metal up your palette

A nice wee combo of various colours from all the albums

combo

There you go, head over to the repo to see them all.

If you do use any of these, let me know, I’d love to see them in action, so be sure to let me know 🙂

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 🙂