Find RGB by Japanese color names

Description

JapaneseColors returns RGB values from Japanese traditional color names, which are defined by Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS).

Usage

JapaneseColors(names)

Arguments

Details

The JIS Common Color Names (JIS Z 8102:2001) is definition of 269 colors by JIS. JapaneseColors provides the RGB value in conformity to the JIS Standards, referring the Japanese traditional color name. Note that this function only supports the JIS colors with Japanese traditional names (145 colors), and does not support the JIS colors with English names (124 colors).

Value

A character vector

Author(s)

Susumu Tanimura

References

JIS Z 8102:2001 (Names of non-luminous object colours)

K. Seino and I. Shimamori. Shikimeijiten. Tokyo:Sinkigensha, 2005.

See Also

nippon.palette

Examples

JapaneseColors(c("sangoiro","kuriiro"))

Results

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> library(Nippon)
Loading required package: maptools
Loading required package: sp
Checking rgeos availability: TRUE
> png(filename="/home/ddbj/snapshot/RGM3/R_CC/result/Nippon/JapaneseColors.Rd_%03d_medium.png", width=480, height=480)
> ### Name: JapaneseColors
> ### Title: Find RGB by Japanese color names
> ### Aliases: JapaneseColors
> ### Keywords: Japanese color
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> JapaneseColors(c("sangoiro","kuriiro"))
sangoiro  kuriiro 
     142       51 
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> dev.off()
null device 
          1 
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