palettes - Color palettes, symbol palettes, and line pattern palettes for Stata graphs

Description

The palettes package contains Stata commands colorpalette, commands colorcheck, colorpalette9, symbolpalette, and linepalette. The commands are used by grstyle to manage colors, symbols, and line patterns. They can also be used directly to view, retrieve, or analyze a palette.

Stata 9.2 or newer is required. Commands colorpalette and colorcheck require Stata 14.2 or newer. The engine behind these commands is a Mata library called ColrSpace, which has been written in Stata 14.2.

Installation

To install the commands on your system, run command

ssc install palettes, replace

in Stata. Thereafter, type

help palettes

to view the help file. In Stata 14.2 or newer, the ColrSpace package is required. Hence, also type

ssc install colrspace, replace

To check for updates, type

adoupdate palettes colrspace

Alternatively, you can download palettes and ColrSpace from the SSC Archive and add the files to your system manually (see file readme.txt within palettes.zip and colrspace.zip for installation instructions).

Latest version

The latest versions of the palettes and ColrSpace packages can be found at GitHub (more frequently updated than SSC). To install the packages from GitHub, type:

net install palettes, replace from(https://raw.githubusercontent.com/benjann/palettes/master/)
net install colrspace, replace from(https://raw.githubusercontent.com/benjann/colrspace/master/)

Author

The palettes package has been written by Ben Jann.

Thanks for citing the palettes package in your work in one of the following ways:

Jann, Ben (2022). Color palettes for Stata graphics: an update. University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers No. 43. Available from https://ideas.repec.org/p/bss/wpaper/43.html.
Jann, Ben (2018). Color palettes for Stata graphics. The Stata Journal 18(4): 765-785.
Jann, Ben (2018). Color palettes for Stata graphics. University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers No. 31. Available from https://ideas.repec.org/p/bss/wpaper/31.html.
Jann, Ben (2017). PALETTES: Stata module providing color palettes, symbol palettes, and line pattern palettes. Available from https://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s458444.html.

The ColrSpace package can be cited as follows:

Jann, Ben (2022). ColrSpace: A Mata class for color management. University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers No. 42. Available from https://ideas.repec.org/p/bss/wpaper/42.html.
Jann, Ben (2019). COLRSPACE: Stata module providing a class-based color management system in Mata. Available from https://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s458597.html.

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