Changelog • colorr

colorr 1.1.0

CRAN release: 2026-08-22

Every palette now reflects the current season: 2026-27 for the Premier League, LaLiga, Serie A, the Bundesliga, Ligue 1, the NBA and the NHL; 2026 for MLS, MLB, the NFL and the WNBA. The 1.0.1 palettes were fixed at 2016-17 and 2016.
NBA palettes pick up the rebrands since 2017, including the Bucks, Clippers, Grizzlies, Jazz, Pistons and Timberwolves.
Renamed and relocated franchises are current: the Cleveland Guardians, Washington Commanders, Las Vegas Raiders, Utah Mammoth and the Athletics. The old team names "indians" and "redskins" still resolve, to the renamed franchise.
Teams added since 1.0.1: the Seattle Kraken and Utah Mammoth (NHL), and the promoted, relegated and expansion clubs across every soccer league.

wnba.colors() covers all 15 WNBA teams for the 2026 season, including the Golden State Valkyries and the Portland Fire and Toronto Tempo expansion franchises.
soccer.colors() covers 135 clubs: the Premier League, LaLiga, Serie A, the Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and Major League Soccer.
ggplot2 scales for every league: scale_colour_*(), scale_color_*() and scale_fill_*(), e.g. scale_fill_nba("bucks"). Discrete by default; pass discrete = FALSE for a continuous gradient through the team’s colors.
colorr.pal() turns any team palette into a palette function of n, interpolating with grDevices::colorRampPalette() when n exceeds the number of colors a team has.
colorr.colors() looks up a palette when the league is itself a variable, and colorr.leagues() and colorr.teams() list what is available.
A testthat suite covering palette validity, backwards compatibility and the scales.

Every team name accepted by colorr 1.0.1 still works.
Every palette function takes legacy = TRUE, which returns the palette that shipped with 1.0.1 rather than the current one, so older figures reproduce.

mlb.colors("diamondbacks") returned NULL. The palette was defined under a misspelled name and the switch() arm never matched.
The package no longer imports unused functions from graphics and stats.

CRAN release: 2017-02-20