albersdown: Minimalist Theme and Vignette Kit for 'pkgdown' and R Markdown

Provides a minimalist 'ggplot2' theme, colour scales, and 'pkgdown' template built around a curated colour palette system inspired by Josef Albers' colour theory (Albers (1963, ISBN:978-0-300-17935-4) "Interaction of Color"). Includes helpers to apply consistent theming to 'ggplot2' plots, 'gt' tables, and 'bslib' Bootstrap 5 sites, along with one-command setup functions for adopting the style across an R package.

Version: 1.0.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1)
Imports: grDevices, grid, stats, ggplot2
Suggests: gt, bslib, usethis, yaml, cli, testthat, viridisLite, knitr, rmarkdown, pkgdown
Published: 2026-04-01
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.albersdown (may not be active yet)
Author: Bradley R. Buchsbaum [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Bradley R. Buchsbaum <brad.buchsbaum at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/bbuchsbaum/albersdown/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/bbuchsbaum/albersdown, https://bbuchsbaum.github.io/albersdown/
NeedsCompilation: no
CRAN checks: albersdown results

Documentation:

Reference manual: albersdown.html , albersdown.pdf
Vignettes: Design notes: Homage system (source, R code)
Albersdown: Getting started (source, R code)
Theme Lab: Tune Family, Preset, and Rhythm (source, R code)
Theme Showcase: Dark + Accent Families (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: albersdown_1.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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