Globe and Mail Graphics Theme for 'ggplot2'

Theme and colour palettes for The Globe and Mail's graphics. Includes colour and fill scale functions, colour palette helpers and a Globe-styled 'ggplot2' theme object.

TGAM theme

This package contains a theme and colour palettes in The Globe and Mail's graphics style.

It's designed to be used as a companion to The Globe's data journalism template, startr, and its function library, upstartr.

Installation

install.packages('tgamtheme')

Or, if you want to run a development version, you can install it from GitHub by doing:

devtools::install_github('globeandmail/tgamtheme')
library(tgamtheme)

Usage

mtcars %>%
  rownames_to_column() %>%
  ggplot(aes(x = reorder(rowname, mpg), y = mpg)) +
  geom_col() +
  coord_flip() +
  theme_tgam(position = 'left') +
  labs(
    title = 'Fuel consumption for several types of vehicles',
    subtitle = 'Vehicle models from 1973 to 1974',
    caption = 'THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: MOTOR TREND'
  )

There's also a palette, tgam_pal, along with scale_color_tgam and scale_fill_tgam.

Reference

You can find the full reference manual for tgamtheme's functions here.

Get in touch

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Tom Cardoso
@tom_cardoso