civilytics

Brand themes, color palettes, and utility functions for Civilytics Consulting. The package provides a complete ggplot2 theme system drawn from the Civilytics design system — warm paper backgrounds, civic-navy ink, and editorial typography — along with 10 curated color palettes, logo composition helpers, and data-wrangling utilities for public-sector analysis.

Installation

Install from the Civilytics Gitea server:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_git("https://gitea.civilytics.org/Civilytics/civilyticsR.git")

Quick start

library(civilytics)
library(ggplot2)

ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy, colour = class)) +
  geom_point(size = 2.5) +
  scale_color_civilytics() +
  labs(
    title = "Fuel economy by engine displacement",
    subtitle = "Highway MPG vs. engine size for 234 vehicles",
    caption = "Source: EPA fuel economy data (ggplot2::mpg)",
    x = "Engine displacement (litres)",
    y = "Highway MPG"
  ) +
  theme_civilytics()

Color palettes

The package ships 53 named brand colors in civilytics_colors and 10 curated palettes in civilytics_palettes. Use civilytics_palette() to retrieve colors by name, or pass palettes directly to the ggplot2 scales.

Palette gallery

Using palettes

# Discrete fill with the qualitative palette
ggplot(mpg, aes(class, fill = class)) +
  geom_bar(show.legend = FALSE) +
  scale_fill_civilytics() +
  labs(title = "Vehicle counts by class", x = NULL, y = NULL) +
  theme_civilytics(grid = "y")

# Continuous fill with a sequential palette
ggplot(faithfuld, aes(waiting, eruptions, fill = density)) +
  geom_tile() +
  scale_fill_civilytics("seq_ember", discrete = FALSE) +
  labs(title = "Old Faithful eruption density") +
  theme_civilytics(grid = "none")

Themes

Three theme variants cover the most common output contexts. All share the same typographic structure and accept grid and paper_bg parameters.

Editorial (default)

The default theme uses a warm paper background with horizontal gridlines — an editorial, Pew-style layout.

base_plot <- ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy)) +
  geom_point(aes(colour = factor(cyl)), size = 2) +
  scale_color_civilytics() +
  labs(
    title    = "Engine size vs. highway fuel economy",
    subtitle = "Colored by number of cylinders",
    caption  = "Source: ggplot2::mpg",
    colour   = "Cylinders",
    x = "Displacement (L)", y = "Highway MPG"
  )

base_plot + theme_civilytics()

Grid options

The grid parameter controls which major gridlines are drawn.

Dark

Dark navy background with light text, suitable for presentations or dashboards on dark surfaces.

base_plot + theme_civilytics_dark()

Slide

Transparent background and larger base font (18 pt), sized for Reveal.js slides or PowerPoint exports.

base_plot + theme_civilytics_slide()

Facets

Facet strips use the paper_2 tint, with the title font.

ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy)) +
  geom_point(colour = civilytics_colors["navy_600"], size = 1.5) +
  facet_wrap(~class, ncol = 4) +
  labs(
    title = "Highway MPG by vehicle class",
    x = "Displacement (L)", y = "Highway MPG"
  ) +
  theme_civilytics(grid = "y")

Logo utilities

Add the Civilytics logo to any ggplot using the pipe-friendly civilytics_logo() or the lower-level add_logo() / make_logo_grob(). The logo is automatically right-aligned below the plot area. Wrap the ggplot chain in parentheses before piping — R’s |> binds tighter than +.

Wordmark on a light plot

p <- ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy, colour = class)) +
  geom_point(size = 2) +
  scale_color_civilytics() +
  labs(
    title   = "Fuel economy by engine displacement",
    caption = "Source: EPA fuel economy data (ggplot2::mpg)",
    x = "Displacement (L)", y = "Highway MPG"
  ) +
  theme_civilytics()

grid::grid.draw(civilytics_logo(p))

Compact mark

Use type = "mark" for the compact C-pulse icon instead of the full wordmark.

p2_logo <- ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy, colour = factor(cyl))) +
  geom_point(size = 2) +
  scale_color_civilytics() +
  labs(
    title  = "Engine size vs. highway fuel economy",
    colour = "Cylinders",
    x = "Displacement (L)", y = "Highway MPG"
  ) +
  theme_civilytics()

grid::grid.draw(civilytics_logo(p2_logo, type = "mark"))

Multi-plot layout with logo

Use add_logo_ga() to attach a single logo below a row of plots.

p1 <- ggplot(mpg, aes(class, fill = class)) +
  geom_bar(show.legend = FALSE) +
  scale_fill_civilytics() +
  labs(title = "Vehicle counts", x = NULL, y = NULL) +
  theme_civilytics(grid = "y")

p2 <- ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy)) +
  geom_point(colour = civilytics_colors["navy_600"], size = 1.5) +
  labs(title = "Displacement vs. MPG", x = "Displacement (L)", y = "Highway MPG") +
  theme_civilytics(grid = "y")

logo <- make_logo_grob()
grid::grid.draw(add_logo_ga(list(p1, p2), logo))

Other utilities

The package also includes helpers for public-sector data analysis:

Function	Purpose
pretty_count() / pretty_per()	Format numbers and percentages
grade_level_to_num()	Convert grade labels (KG, 01–12) to numeric
race_short_names()	Standardize NCES race/ethnicity categories
get_fips() / get_stabbr()	State FIPS code lookups
clopper_pearson() / agresti_coull_interval()	Proportion confidence intervals
match_test() / trunc_match()	Fuzzy join diagnostics
perturb_count() / random_round()	Privacy-preserving data perturbation

Maintaining brand assets

Logo and brand mark files live in inst/img/. The package ships both PNG (for ggplot2 raster composition) and SVG (for Quarto/HTML output) variants:

File	Format	Used by
civilytics-wordmark.png / .svg	Full “Civilytics” lockup	make_logo_grob("wordmark", "light"), Quarto templates
civilytics-wordmark-reverse.png / .svg	Light-on-dark wordmark	make_logo_grob("wordmark", "dark"), dark slides
civilytics-mark.png / .svg	Compact C-pulse icon	make_logo_grob("mark", "light")
civilytics-mark-reverse.svg	Light-on-dark mark	make_logo_grob("mark", "dark")
civilytics-pulse.svg	Standalone waveform glyph	Quarto slide footer chrome

To update the logos, replace the files in inst/img/ with new versions using the same filenames. The PNG files must be raster images (the ggplot2 logo functions read them via png::readPNG()). SVG files are passed through as-is by Quarto and HTML templates.

After replacing files, re-render the README gallery to update the screenshots:

devtools::load_all()
rmarkdown::render("README.Rmd")