Art of R Packages: Forging Community with Hex Stickers
summary
Hex stickers claim to build community by making packages collectible and visible on clothing, cakes and jewelry, and by signaling identity across Tidyverse, Rhinoverse, Nest and purr. Design follows three rules: symbol, colors, details, with a concrete workflow of sketch → vector → black & white → hand color. Examples: Nest uses top‑view nesting motif, Rhino uses geometric strength shapes, purr encodes iteration, and an Appsilon contest already produced a tidypolars sticker; contrast checks support accessibility.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00R package communities
- 1:03Communities in gaming and R
- 2:54Psychology of hex stickers
- 4:18Designing hex stickers
- 6:08Symbolism in hex design
- 7:15Colors in hex stickers
- 8:18Details in hex design
- 9:01Summary
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