Choose color palette and 3 specific colors for methods and standardize across graphics

[hputnam]

@yaaminiv @shellytrigg any ideas?

[hputnam]

It looks like for most figures, WGBS is green, RRBS is blue, and MBDBS is red. Figure 1 has WGBS and RRBS reversed.

[yaaminiv]

I think on Slack we decided to move away from red/green contrasts and go with orange, green, and purple instead! I can put together a color palette and confirm accessibility with dichromat.

[yaaminiv]

WGBS: green RRBS: purple MBD-BS: orange

I have 2 different color palettes: one with 3 shades and one with 5 shades. I have the code for each palette, hex codes for each color, and the revised plot so you can see what the colors look like.

3 shades (CpG methylation status)

plotColors <- c(rev(RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(3, "Greens")), 
                rev(RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(3, "Purples")), 
                rev(RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(3, "Oranges"))) #Create vector of WGBS, RRBS, and MBD colors

Hex codes:

Greens: -"#31A354"

• "#A1D99B"
• "#E5F5E0"

Purples:

• "#756BB1"
• "#BCBDDC"
• "#EFEDF5"

Oranges:

• "#E6550D"
• "#FDAE6B"
• "#FEE6CE"

5 shades (CpG genomic location)

plotColors2 <- c("grey20", "grey40", "grey60", "grey80", "grey100", 
                rev(RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(5, "Greens")), 
                rev(RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(5, "Purples")), 
                rev(RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(5, "Oranges")))

Hex codes (not including greyscale):

Greens:

• "#006D2C"
• "#31A354"
• "#74C476"
• "#BAE4B3"
• "#EDF8E9"

Purples:

• "#54278F"
• "#756BB1" -"#9E9AC8" -"#CBC9E2" -"#F2F0F7"

Oranges:

• "#A63603"
• "#E6550D"
• "#FD8D3C"
• "#FDBE85"
• "#FEEDDE"