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help for scheme_538(Version 1.4)

Title

Scheme description: 538w graphic schemes

Scheme description: 538w graphic schemes

The 538 scheme family is:

schemename Foreground Background description

538w color white color on white
538 color gray color on white
538bw black white balck and white on white

Syntax

For instance, you might type

. graph
...,
...
scheme(538w)

. set
scheme
538w
[,
permanently
]

See help scheme_option and help set_scheme.

Description

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

The scheme 538w relies upon the same design as 538. Yet instead of a gray background, the background is kept in white.

The scheme 538 replicates the figure design of 538 schemes for Stata. It uses 6 colors (blue; red; green; yellow; magenta; orange).

The scheme 538bw relies upon the same design as 538. Yet instead of a gray background, the background is kept in white. Furthermore, it uses only black and white color shades.

Remarks

The schemes 538 and 538w have a gray background tinting; The schemes 538 and 538w use 5 colors (538b; 538r, 538g; 538y; 538m; 538o); The schemes 538 and 538w also privde shaded red and blue coloring (538bs1-538bs11; 538rs1-538rs11); y-axis labels are horizontal; gridlines are lines; gridlines are drawn for the x- and y-axis; gridlines are thin; x- and y-axis are in gray; markers are all small; lines are medium; fonts of labels are small; 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; plotregions are omitted; 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.

The scheme 538bw same as above, but without background color and black/gray color shading.

. line
x
y
,
lcolor(538m)

The five colors are blue, red, green, yellow and magenta. All colors are exactly the same color shade as used by 538.

538b
538r
538g
538y
538m
538o

References

Bischof, D. 2017. New Graphic Schemes for Stata: plotplain & plottig. Stata Journal: 17(3): 1-12. https://danbischof.com/publications/

Author

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

Also see

Online: help for schemes; scheme_option, set_scheme