Title

cleanplots -- Graphics scheme that implements best
data visualization practices. Default color choices are effective in both
color and when printed in grayscale.

Overview

cleanplots changes the default look and feel of Stata graphics.
The choices of colors, markers, gridlines, and other aspects of the figure
follow best data visualization practices.

The choices for colors and markers allow for graphics that are effective when
used in color but that can also be easily distinguished when printed in
grayscale.

For more information and to see examples, see the
cleanplots website here.

Many of the features of cleanplots are adapted from the excellent black and
white colorscheme plotplain
which you can read about here.

Using cleanplots

To change your graphics scheme to cleanplots use the command:

set scheme cleanplots, perm

Stata's default graphic scheme is s2color. To change back to the default:

set scheme s2color, perm

Authorship

cleanplots is written by Trenton D Mize (Department of Sociology,
Purdue University). Questions can be sent to tmize@purdue.edu