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nmfspalette

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Velocity0.0

A Color Palette for NOAA Fisheries

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A NOAA Fisheries colour palette that ships when the branding guide changes

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◆Current state
nmfspalette supplies the NOAA Fisheries colour palette as an R package, for figures that have to follow agency branding. Its five releases track the branding guide rather than any software need: a first version in 2020, a breaking switch to CSS-compatible colour names in 2021, an update to the 2022 branding colours applied in July 2023, and a 2024 release whose stated purpose is to mint a DOI. There is no functionality here beyond supplying colours.
◆Where it's heading
This is a package whose release schedule is set outside the project — it changes when NOAA publishes new branding, and the 2022 guide took until 2023 to land here. The one release with real user impact was the 2021 breaking change, which replaced the branding guide's colour names with CSS-compatible ones and would have broken any code naming a colour directly. The DOI release indicates the maintainer expects it to be cited in publications, which is the natural end state for an agency-standard palette.
◆Prediction
Expect the next release when NOAA Fisheries revises its branding guide again; on the 2022-to-2023 precedent, it will follow the guide by several months.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2y ago

    Minor updates and DOI

    Minor updates whose stated purpose is to create a DOI for the package. No colour or code change, but it signals the maintainer expects the palette to be cited rather than merely used.

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  2. 2y ago

    Update to new 2022 colors

    Applies the colours from the 2022 NOAA branding guide, updated in July 2023 and only then reflected in a version bump. The lag between the guide and the package is the clearest illustration of what drives this release schedule.

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  3. 5y ago

    Release with CSS compatible names

    A breaking change replacing the colour names given in the NOAA branding guide with CSS-compatible ones. The only release here that would have required users to edit code, and the package has been stable in that respect ever since.

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  4. 5y ago

    Release update to work with r-cmd-check

    Minor fixes to get the package through R CMD check, plus a README update. Housekeeping one day after the first release.

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  5. 5y ago

    The first release of nmfspalette

    The first version, supplying the NOAA Fisheries palette to R users. Everything since has been either a branding-guide update or packaging work.

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