cpt-city Colour Gradients • cptcity

7,489 colour palettes for R — from scientific gradients to the Spider-Verse.

⚡ “When do I know I’m Spider-Man?” — “You won’t. It’s a leap of faith. That’s all it is, Miles. A leap of faith.”

cptcity brings the iconic visual energy of Into the Spider-Verse directly into R! With 7,489 colour gradients — including 63 dedicated Spider-Verse palettes — you can render maps, spatial rasters, and plots in the exact colour spectrums of Miles Morales, Earth-1610, Gwen Stacy, and the Multiverse.

What’s inside

The classic 7,140 gradients from the cpt-city archive — plus 349 curated palettes across 26 categories: art, architecture, decades, books, cyberpunk, space agencies, video games, cinema, music, anime, cities, mythology, science, Brazil, films, gemstones, weather, comics, food, albums, photography, and the entire Spider-Verse.

All 12 categories grid

Four functions. That’s it.

Function	What it does
`cpt(pal, n, colorRampPalette, rev, frgb)`	Returns a colour gradient — character vector or `colorRampPalette` function
`find_cpt(keyword)`	Searches 7288 palette names (case-insensitive)
`show_cpt(names)`	Displays palettes side-by-side as colour bars
`lucky()`	Random palette — “I’m Feeling Lucky” for colours

library(cptcity)

# 🎧 Miles Morales "What's Up Danger" Search
find_cpt("miles")         # → spider_miles_morales, spider_miles_leap_of_faith, spider_miles_graffiti

# Get Miles Morales colours
cols <- cpt("spider_miles_leap_of_faith", n = 100)

# Preview Spider-Verse palettes
show_cpt(find_cpt("spider_miles"))

🕷️ Spider-Verse Spotlight — 63 Palettes. Every Dimension.

“What’s up, danger?”

The genius of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse lies in its revolutionary colour language. Every dimension, every leap, and every character carries a unique visual signature.

🎧 Miles Morales & Earth-1610 Collection

Palette	Description / Vibe
`spider_miles_morales`	Miles Morales — stealth black suit, neon spray crimson, electric venom strike
`spider_miles_leap_of_faith`	Leap of Faith — rising into upside-down city lights (slate, blazing red, sky blue)
`spider_miles_graffiti`	Brooklyn Street Art — spray-can magenta, electric cyan, subway tagger glow
`spider_earth_1610`	Earth-1610 — Miles’ home dimension, halftone dots, vibrant urban comic culture
`spider_brooklyn`	Brooklyn Skyline — brownstone brick, evening purple, street lamp gold
`spider_prowler`	The Prowler (Uncle Aaron) — sinister predator purple, green claw glare, menacing shadow

library(cptcity)
library(sf)

# 🌆 Plot map in Miles Morales "Leap of Faith" palette
nc <- st_read(system.file("shape/nc.shp", package = "sf"))
plot(nc["AREA"], pal = cpt("spider_miles_leap_of_faith", colorRampPalette = TRUE),
     main = "Leap of Faith — Miles Morales Palette")

# ⚡ Electric Venom Strike matrix preview
image(matrix(1:100), col = cpt("spider_miles_morales"), main = "Spider-Miles Stealth & Spray")

👤 HEROES — 14 palettes

Palette	Character
`spider_miles_morales`	Miles Morales — stealth black suit & neon spray
`spider_man`	Peter Parker — classic red & blue
`spider_gwen`	Ghost-Spider — pastel watercolor & ballet teal
`spider_noir`	1930s monochrome detective
`spider_2099`	Miguel O’Hara — cyberpunk Nueva York future
`spider_punk`	Hobie Brown — Union Jack anarchy
`spider_pavitr`	Spider-Man India — saffron & emerald
`spider_ham`	Spider-Ham — cartoon primaries
`spider_peni`	Peni Parker — mecha magenta
`spider_scarlet`	Ben Reilly — hoodie red & blue
`spider_superior`	Otto Octavius — darker, sharper
`spider_symbiote`	The black suit — sleek & alien
`spider_byte`	Margo Kess — digital avatar
`spider_1602`	Elizabethan Spider — medieval tones

👨‍👩‍👧 FAMILY & ALLIES — 7 palettes

Palette	Character
`spider_prowler`	Aaron Davis — purple menace
`spider_prowler_earth42`	Earth-42 Prowler — red & violet
`spider_rio_morales`	Rio Morales — warm Puerto Rican
`spider_jefferson_davis`	Jefferson Davis — police blues
`spider_aunt_may`	Aunt May — gentle earth tones
`spider_jessica_drew`	Spider-Woman — yellow & green
`spider_peter_b_parker`	Washed-up Peter — robe & regret
`spider_mayday`	Mayday Parker — baby Spider

🦹 VILLAINS — 12 palettes

Palette	Character
`spider_spot`	The Spot — white void, black dots
`spider_spot_ascended`	The Spot (full power) — reality-breaking B&W
`spider_green_goblin`	Norman Osborn — purple & green
`spider_venom`	The symbiote — black with pink tongue
`spider_carnage`	Cletus Kasady — blood red chaos
`spider_doc_ock`	Doc Ock — metallic green tentacles
`spider_kingpin`	Wilson Fisk — imposing white & black
`spider_mysterio`	Quentin Beck — illusion purple & gold
`spider_sandman`	Flint Marko — desert earth
`spider_electro`	Max Dillon — electric blue
`spider_vulture`	Adrian Toomes — deep teal
`spider_lizard`	Curt Connors — reptilian green
`spider_rhino`	Aleksei Sytsevich — grey armor
`spider_scorpion`	Mac Gargan — acid green & gold
`spider_tombstone`	Lonnie Lincoln — chalk white

🌐 DIMENSIONS & WORLDS — 9 palettes

Palette	World
`spider_earth_1610`	Miles’ dimension — neon street art
`spider_earth_65`	Gwen’s world — ballet pastels
`spider_earth_90214`	Noir’s world — sepia shadows
`spider_earth_928`	2099’s Nueva York — cyber blue
`spider_earth_50101`	Pavitr’s Mumbattan — vibrant India
`spider_mumbattan`	The city itself — saffron heat
`spider_nueva_york`	The future skyline — electric blue
`spider_gwen_world`	Gwen’s watercolor dimension
`spider_brooklyn`	Miles’ brownstone neighborhood

✨ COSMIC & EFFECTS — 10 palettes

Palette	What it is
`spider_web_of_destiny`	The great golden web — threads of fate
`spider_great_web`	The multiverse web — radiant gold
`spider_spider_society`	Miguel’s HQ — orange & black
`spider_portal`	Interdimensional portal — blazing orange
`spider_collider`	Kingpin’s collider — purple annihilation
`spider_go_home_machine`	The Go-Home-Machine — white-hot orange
`spider_glitch`	The glitch effect — RGB static
`spider_multiverse`	Multiverse burst — every color at once
`spider_interdimensional`	Between dimensions — full spectrum
`spider_miles_graffiti`	Miles’ spray can — street art neon
`spider_miles_leap_of_faith`	“What’s up danger” — rising into light

Every world has its own colour language. That’s the genius of the Spider-Verse films — and why these palettes exist. Earth-65 breathes in pinks and teals. Earth-90214 lives in monochrome. Earth-928 runs on cyber-blue. The Web of Destiny glows gold against infinite black.

The new v2 palettes

🎮 Games

Street Fighter, Pac-Man, Tetris, Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Sonic, Doom, Portal — arcade history in colour.

🚀 Space agencies

NASA, NOAA, JAXA, ESA, SpaceX, Roscosmos. Plus Hubble, JWST, Mars Rover, Apollo, Voyager.

🎨 Art movements

16 movements: Impressionism (Monet), Van Gogh, Cubism (Picasso), Surrealism (Dalí), Kandinsky, Mondrian, Pop Art (Warhol), Expressionism (Munch), Baroque, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Bauhaus, Minimalism, Renaissance, Rococo.

⏳ Decades timeline

From 1920s Gatsby to 2020s gradient design. Each era’s aesthetic distilled into a colour ramp.

🌃 Works with sf and ggplot2

library(sf)
nc <- st_read(system.file("shape/nc.shp", package = "sf"))
plot(nc["AREA"], pal = cpt("spider_miles_leap_of_faith", colorRampPalette = TRUE))

More categories

Prefix	Palettes	Example
`book_`	14	`book_dune_arrakis`, `book_neuromancer`, `book_1984_orwell`
`cyber_`	7	`cyber_2077_night_city`, `cyber_blade_runner`, `cyber_matrix`
`cinema_`	8	`cinema_mgm_lion`, `cinema_technicolor`, `cinema_film_noir`
`arch_`	12	`arch_fallingwater_wright`, `arch_sagrada_familia_gaudi`
`tv_`	8	`tv_stranger_things`, `tv_twin_peaks`, `tv_x_files`
`era_`	9	`era_ancient_egypt`, `era_wild_west`, `era_industrial`
`nature_`	14	`nature_aurora_borealis`, `nature_coral_reef`, `nature_nebula`
`misc_`	8	`misc_vaporwave`, `misc_outrun`, `misc_steampunk`

Installation

install.packages("cptcity")           # CRAN
# or
remotes::install_github("ibarraespinosa/cptcity")

library(cptcity)

# Miles Morales Leap of Faith gradient
image(matrix(1:100), col = cpt("spider_miles_leap_of_faith"))

# Classic cpt-city palette
image(matrix(1:100), col = cpt("mpl_inferno"))

Dependencies

Exactly one: grDevices (ships with R). Zero bloat.

Citation

citation("cptcity")

Sergio Ibarra-Espinosa (2026). cptcity: incorporating the cpt-city archive into R. R package version 2.0.0. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=cptcity

License

GPL-3 · Palettes retain their original licenses (documented in inst/extdata/).

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cptcity

What’s inside

Four functions. That’s it.

🕷️ Spider-Verse Spotlight — 63 Palettes. Every Dimension.

🎧 Miles Morales & Earth-1610 Collection

The new v2 palettes

🎮 Games

🚀 Space agencies

🎨 Art movements

⏳ Decades timeline

🌃 Works with sf and ggplot2

More categories

Installation

Dependencies

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