help for scheme_plotplain(Version 1.3.0)

Title

Scheme description: blindschemes

Scheme description: blind and colorblind

Blindschemes is a package containing four Stata figure schemes. For more details please check the respective helpfiles. The plotplain scheme family is:

schemename Foreground Background description

plotplain{…}
black white black on white
plotplainblind{…}
color white colorblind friendly colors on white

plottig{…}
color white colors on gray
plottigblind{…}
color white colorblind friendly colors on gray

Syntax

Please consult the respective helpfiles for each figure scheme:

. help
plotplain

. help
plotplainblind

. help
plottig

. help
plottigblind

See help scheme_option and help set_scheme.

Description

Schemes determine the overall look of a graph; see help schemes.

The scheme plotplain uses shades of gray and shapes of lines to distinguish plotted subgroups in a figure.

The scheme plotplainblind relies upon the same design as plotplain but introduces 7 new colors which should also be distinguishable for colorblind
people.

The scheme plottig uses 14 new colors and a gray background. It heavily relies upon the insights from Cleveland, 1985 and on the ggplot scheme for the statistical software R.

The scheme plottigblind relies upon the same design as plottig but instead uses 7 colors which are distinguishable for colorblind people and have been introduced in plotplainblind.

More details on the schemes may be found in the working paper indicated below.

References

Bischof, D. 2015. Figure Schemes for Decent Stata Figures: plotplain & plottig. http://danbischof.wordpress.com/publications/

Okabe, M. & Kei Ito. Color Universal Design (CUD) - How to make figures and presentations that are friendly to Colorblind people. http://jfly.iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp/color/

Author

Daniel Bischof, Department of Political Science,
University of Zurich, CH.

Also see

Online: help for schemes; scheme_option, set_scheme