Important. This package is currently under development.

The ggugent package provides a custom, opinionated ggplot2 theme (theme_ugent) tailored to the branding guidelines of Ghent University (UGent). This theme allows R users to create ggplot2 visualisations that align with the university’s style, including font, colours, and other aesthetic elements.

You can install the development version from GitHub.

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("llippens/ggugent")

After installation, you can use the theme_ugent function to apply the UGent theme to your ggplot2 objects. Here’s an example using the mtcars dataset.

library(ggplot2)
library(ggugent)
ggplot(data = mtcars, mapping = aes(x = wt, y = mpg)) +
  geom_point() +
  geom_smooth(
    method = "lm",
    formula = y ~ x,
    alpha = .15,
    colour = "#1E64C8"
  ) +
  facet_wrap(~cyl, ncol = 3) +
  scale_x_continuous(limits = c(0, 5.5), breaks = seq(0, 5, 1)) +
  scale_y_continuous(limits = c(5, 35)) +
  labs(
    title = "Motor Trend car road tests",
    subtitle = "Vehicles miles per gallon vs weight by number of cylinders",
    caption = "Source: Motor Trend US magazine",
    x = "Weight (x1,000 lbs)",
    y = "Miles / (US) gallon"
  ) +
  theme_ugent(
    base_size = 20,
    faculty = "EB"
  )

1. Custom Font. The theme uses ‘UGent Panno Text’ as the default font (and ‘Arial’ as secondary or fall-back font).
2. Adaptable Text Size. The base_size parameter sets a standard font size from which relative sizes of other text elements are calculated.
3. UGent Colour Theme. The theme uses UGent blue #1E64C8 as its base colour.
4. Faculty Colours. The faculty_colour parameter specifies faculty colours through character shortcodes like “EB” for the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration.
   • LW for the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy (orange, #F1A42B)
   • RE for the Faculty of Law and Criminology (warm red, #DC4E28)
   • WE for the Faculty of Sciences (aqua, #2D8CA8)
   • GE for the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (salmon pink, #E85E71)
   • EA for the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (medium sky-blue, #8BBEE8)
   • EB for the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (light green, #AEB050)
   • DI for the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (purple, #825491)
   • PP for the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (warm orange, #FB7E3A)
   • BW for the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering (turquoise, #27ABAD)
   • FW for the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences (light purple, #BE5190)
   • PS for the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences (green, #71A860)

Contributions are appreciated! The development of this package is still in its very early phase. If you would like to contribute, please use a pull request. Issue reports are also warmly welcomed.

The code in this project is licensed under MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.