How to Use Themes

Timothée Giraud

2022-08-04

mf_theme() sets a map theme. A theme is a set of graphical parameters that are applied to maps created with mapsf. These parameters are the figure margins, background and foreground colors and mf_title() options. mapsf offers some builtin themes. It’s possible to modify an existing theme or to start a theme from scratch. The map theme can also be set with mf_init() and mf_export().

Builtin themes

Here are the builtin themes. We have added a grey background color to make the margins more visible.

The following table displays the parameters of these themes.

name	bg	fg	mar	tab	pos	inner	line	cex	font
default	#f7f7f7	#333333	c(0.5, 0.5, 1.7, 0.5)	TRUE	left	FALSE	1.2	1	1
ink	#FFDEAD	#0000FF	c(0, 0, 1.2, 0)	FALSE	left	FALSE	1.2	0.9	2
dark	#2E3947	#7E848C	c(0.5, 0.5, 2, 0.5)	FALSE	left	FALSE	1.5	1	1
agolalight	#EDF4F5	#82888A	c(0, 0, 2, 0)	FALSE	left	FALSE	2	1.5	3
candy	#FDFCFE	#6B1767	c(0, 0, 2, 0)	FALSE	center	FALSE	2	1.5	2
darkula	#232525	#A9B7C6	c(0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5)	TRUE	right	TRUE	1.5	1	4
iceberg	#0B0E0E	#BDD6DB	c(0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5)	TRUE	right	TRUE	1.5	1	4
green	#1B1D16	#D7FF68	c(0.5, 0.5, 2, 0.5)	FALSE	center	FALSE	1.5	1	2
nevermind	#4DB8DA	#121725	c(2, 2, 3.5, 2)	FALSE	center	FALSE	1.5	1.4	1
jsk	#ffdc11	#0c973c	c(0, 0, 1.5, 0)	FALSE	left	FALSE	1.5	1	2
barcelona	#160808	#d73e23	c(0, 0, 1.2, 0)	TRUE	left	FALSE	1.2	1	2

How to modify an existing theme

It is possible to modify an existing theme. In this example we use the “default” theme and modify some title parameters.

library(mapsf)
mtq <- mf_get_mtq()
mf_theme("default", tab = FALSE, font = 4)
mf_map(mtq)
mf_title('Mofified "default" theme')

How to create a new theme

It is possible to create a new theme.

mf_theme(bg = "lightblue", fg = "tomato1", mar = c(0,2,0,2), 
         tab = TRUE, inner = TRUE, line = 1.3, pos = "center", 
         cex = 1.1, font = 3)
mf_map(mtq)
mf_title("New theme")