MakiePublication.jl

MakiePublication.jl is a Julia package for producing publication quality figures based on Makie.jl. It aims to provide equivalent functionalities as the Python package mpltex.

Read the full documentation here.

Features

• Provide a collection of custom themes for journal publishers (ACS, APS, RSC) and some individual journals (JCAP, JHEP).
• Custom theme for making figures suitable for web pages.
• 15 color palettes based on well-known quality color schemes with special tweaked ordering for scientific publishing. (since v0.3.0)
• Support hollow markers. (since v0.3.1)

Install

MakiePublication can be installed from the Julia REPL.

julia> # Press the key "]"

(@v1.8) pkg> add MakiePublication

Quick Start

MakiePublication provides a number of theme_* methods to generate themes (Makie.Theme instances) which can be given to Makie's theming methods: set_theme!, update_theme!, and with_theme. A typical usage pattern is

using MakiePublication
using CairoMakie

with_theme(theme_web()) do
    lines(0..10, sin)
    lines!(0..10, cos)
    current_figure()
end

Or if you have a more complicated plotting function,

function myplot()
    fig = Figure(figure_padding=(2, 6, 1, 6))
    ax = Axis(fig, xlabel=L"x", ylabel=L"f(x)")
    lines!(ax, 0..10, sin)
    lines!(ax, 0..10, cos)

    fig[1,1] = ax
    fig
end

with_theme(myplot, theme_web())

Check out the documentation for more details.

Colors

The default color cycle is 10-color seanborn_deep (since v0.2.3). MakiePublication also provides 15 carefully chosen color palettes based on well-known palettes, such as tab10, tableau_10, Makie.wong_colors, okabe_ito, etc. The colors in each palette has been reordered if necessary to be consistent with the order of the default matplotlib color palette, tab10. The order is: blue, orange, green, red, purple, brown, pink, gray, yellow, and cyan. You can choose it from the array MakiePublication.COLORS and use it like this:

with_theme(myplot, theme_web(colors=MakiePublication.COLORS[5]))

Or obtain the color palette by calling a function:

with_theme(myplot, theme_web(colors=MakiePublication.tol_bright()))

The demonstration of available color palettes can be found in the Pluto notebook doc/makiepub_colors.jl.html.

Showcase of Themes

Note the difference of physical size among figures. APS figures have ticks on all four axes (new in v0.4.1).

• theme_acs for American Chemical Society (ACS)

• theme_aps for American Physical Society (APS) and American Institute of Physics (AIP)

• theme_rsc for Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Documentation

The full documentation is available here.

Contribute

• Star the package on github.com.
• File an issue or make a pull request on github.com.
• Pull requests of new schemes for other publishers and journals are highly appreciated.
• Contact the author via email lyx@fudan.edu.cn.