🎨 brutalviz

May 7, 2025 · View on GitHub

brutalviz is a collection of bold and beautiful ggplot2 themes that bring striking aesthetics and professional polish to your data visualizations. With integrated support for Google Fonts via showtext, each theme is designed for clarity, impact, and reproducibility across platforms and output formats.

✨ Features

🧱 Neo-Brutalist theme — sharp, gridded, typographic emphasis with 'Anton' font
🌅 Pastel Minimal — soft, clean elegance with 'Quicksand'
🌌 Dark Dashboard — dark mode for dashboards and reports using 'Fira Sans'
🌻 Flat Fun — playful, modern, colorful visuals with 'Baloo 2'
💡 Google Fonts are loaded automatically with showtext

All themes are built for ggplot2, compatible with static and interactive output, and ideal for dashboards, presentations, and publishing.

📦 Installation

# install.packages("devtools")  # if needed
devtools::install_github("yourusername/brutalviz")

🔧 Usage

library(ggplot2)
library(brutalviz)

ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg, color = factor(cyl))) +
  geom_point(size = 3) +
  labs(title = "Neo-Brutalist Style") +
  theme_neo_brutalist()

You can swap in any of the following:

theme_pastel_minimal()
theme_dark_dashboard()
theme_flat_fun()

📀 Fonts & Rendering

This package uses showtext to automatically load and embed Google Fonts:

Anton (Neo-Brutalist)
Quicksand (Pastel)
Fira Sans (Dark)
Baloo 2 (Fun)

Plots render crisply in RMarkdown, Quarto, PDFs, and PNGs without local font installations.

📁 Project Structure

brutalviz/
├── R/                # Theme functions
├── man/              # Auto-generated documentation
├── DESCRIPTION       # Package metadata
├── NAMESPACE         # Export declarations
├── README.md         # You're reading it

✅ To Do

Add theme-specific color palettes
Create Quarto demo gallery
Publish pkgdown site

🤪 Contributing

Contributions welcome! Feel free to fork and submit a pull request if you have new theme ideas or improvements.