decide on workflows for rev 0.1.0

hrbrmstr commented 6 years ago

Core elements are:

fonts
colors
base ggplot2 theme
base rmakdown theme

Fonts

select fonts local (optionally converting OTF to TTF if possible)
select fonts from google fonts
select fonts from one other source we should try to find

Colors

Lots of orgs have color palette swatches. We can import those with swatches.

We shld let folks extend ^^ or just build a new color palette from color picker or typing in #XXYYZZ

No limits.

Perhaps also let build a continuous palette from selecting 3 colors

base ggplot2 theme

We need to make 4-6 plot themes for folks to pick from ranging from "pro" like hrbrthemes to lighter designs.

markdown themes

use 4-6 bootstrap themes and then use the fonts and colors from ^^

awhstin commented 6 years ago

This looks great, here are my thoughts:

Fonts

I think that this part is huge, as you mentioned dealing with fonts in R is hard.
Do you have any opinions about the other font source? I know Fonts.com has an API but have never worked with it so it would need some checking out. I rely solely on Google Fonts so my experience here is limited.

Colors

Swatches and limitless palette building made easy would be good, a lot of companies have marketing booklets with HEX codes included, so ease of creating color/fill/gradients etc would be big.
Another aspect I want your opinion on would be "helping" with the color palette. My thought would be a palette reshuffle that makes a grid of sample plots with 6 different reshuffles of your palette to help with the order? Just a thought.

"Perhaps also let build a continuous palette from selecting 3 colors base ggplot2 theme" this would be a great option as well

I think the bootstrap piece would be good but again I am not too well versed in that realm but I am willing to learn as much as you are willing to teach! Also I wanted to know what you thought the key deliverables here are? Originally I thought of generating an R file of their company's branding but I think there is definitely more to offer!

awhstin commented 4 years ago

I just recently came across this repository again and have some time. I might start putting together a base theme, or maybe start with color palettes. Possibly start with a primary and secondary where (if you don't have a swatch) you can input your palette.

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