How to add texture to fill colors in ggplot2

Question

I\'m currently using scale_brewer() for fill and these look beautiful in color (on screen and via color printer) but print relatively uniformly as greys when us

Answer 1

ggplot can use colorbrewer palettes. Some of these are "photocopy" friendly. So mabe something like this will work for you?

ggplot(diamonds, aes(x=cut, y=price, group=cut))+
geom_boxplot(aes(fill=cut))+scale_fill_brewer(palette="OrRd")

in this case OrRd is a palette found on the colorbrewer webpage: http://colorbrewer2.org/

Photocopy Friendly: This indicates that a given color scheme will withstand black and white photocopying. Diverging schemes can not be photocopied successfully. Differences in lightness should be preserved with sequential schemes.