Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

biopalette 0.1.0

Released: April 2026

Initial release of biopalette — image-inspired color palettes for biomedical visualization.

New Features

• get_palette() — retrieve colors by name, type, and size
• list_palettes() — data frame of all available palettes
• palette_gallery() — paged visual gallery of all palettes
• preview_palette() — render color swatches to a plot
• create_palette() — write a new palette to JSON
• compile_palettes() — compile all JSONs into a named list
• remove_palette() — remove a palette by name
• hex2rgb() — convert HEX to RGB
• rgb2hex() — convert RGB to HEX

Palettes

• gene_red — qualitative, 2 colors. Better Call Saul — Gene Takavic’s red coat
• walter_white — diverging, 5 colors. Breaking Bad — desert to sky
• walter_white2 — qualitative, 5 colors. Breaking Bad — muted earth tones
• walter_white3 — diverging, 5 colors. Breaking Bad — warm counterpart
• babel — qualitative, 21 colors. Pan-cancer myeloid atlas (Cell, 2021)
• three_body — qualitative, 3 colors. Pan-cancer myeloid atlas (Cell, 2021)