help for scheme_plottig(Version 1.3.0)

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Scheme description: plottig & plottigblind

Scheme description: plottig and plottigblind

The plottig scheme family is:

schemename Foreground Background description

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

Syntax

For instance, you might type

. graph
...,
...
scheme(plottig)

. set
scheme
plottig
[,
permanently
]

See help scheme_option and help set_scheme.

Description

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

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.

Remarks

The schemes plottig and plottigblind have a gray background tinting; y-axis labels are horizontal; gridlines are white; gridlines are drawn for the x- and y-axis; gridlines are medium; x- and y-axis are not plotted; markers are medium; lines are medium; fonts of labels are medium; legends are not framed; legends appear on the right hand side of the figure; keylabels of legends are medium large; legends rely on rows first; intensity of pie- and bar figures is reduced to 50; borderlines of histograms and bar are thin; marker symbols are reordered to assure that points in scatters are less often overlapping.

On top of that, the scheme plottigblind introduces 14 new colors to stata. Inspiration for the colors comes from http://colorbrewer.org/ and the ggplot package. Thus, they may be used like any other color in stata. E.g.:

. line
x
y
,
lcolor(plr1)

The 14 colors are:

plr1
plr2
plb1
plb2
plb3
plg1
plg2
plg3
pll1
pll2
pll3
ply1
ply2
ply3

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

References

Bischof, D. 2015. Figure Schemes for Decent Stata Figures: plottig & 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/

Cleveland, William S. 1985. The Elements of Graphing Data. Monterey: Wadsworth Advanced Books and Software.

Author

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

Also see

Online: help for schemes; scheme_option, set_scheme