r - Text color with geom_label_repel - Stack Overflow 15.06.2020 · Here's a bit of a hacky solution since you can't have two scale_color_*'s at the same time:. The approach centers on manually assigning the color outside of aes in the geom_label_repel call. Adding one to the grepl result that searches for the minus sign in the label allows you to subset the two colors. You need two colors for each label, I assume for the …