The 202 color palettes included in the original unicol package come from two sources:

1. The R package unikn contained 52 color palettes from a variety of international institutions (beyond the University of Konstanz).

2. An additional 150 color palettes (from a wider range of institutions) were added by students of a course on Open Source Software Development in R (PSY-18040), at the University of Konstanz in Summer 2023.

The current set of color palettes stems mostly from universities in the U.S., U.K., and Germany. We would love to include additional color palettes from a more diverse range of countries and regions. But as our resources are limited, this requires your help:

If you would like to use the colors of your institutions in R, the color functions of the unikn package make it easy and straightforward to create a new color palette. (See the newpal() function or the vignette on Institutional colors for instructions.)

Once you have created your own color palette, you can use it just as any of the palettes provided by the unicol package. However, please do not forget to let us know! We collect color palettes from other institutions to make them available in future versions of unicol (with credits to your contributions, of course).

To enable us to verify and provide appropriate credit to your contributions, please provide us with the following information:

• your code (e.g., the newpal() command creating your color palette),
• your color information source (e.g., some URL with color definitions),
• your name and some contact information (e.g., an Email address).

We're looking forward to your contributions!