Create a Custom Graph Theme

Learn how to create a custom graph theme. DataGraph has a style sheet approach that lets you separate the graph options from the style of a graph. Customize colors, backgrounds, gridlines, tickmarks, and more to create your themes. Create styles and themes that can be appiled to new graphs and moved between files. This webinar will feature examples from DataGraph’s new ‘Themes’ example files.

Video

0:00 Introduction
0:49 One thing you must know! Copy and Paste Styles
2:49 Apply Styles to Multiple Graphs
4:28 Three things Great about DG Styles
8:20 Overview of Layout settings
15:15 Q&A How to make templates?
18:31 Overview of Canvas
20:22 Graph Themes, font and sizing
27:50 Q&A How to fix axis points?
32:06 How to Edit Line& Fill Colors
37:30 How to Set Background Colors
38:06 How to Set Gridlines
41:22 Using Extra Axis Command
47:20 Q&A How to create a broken axis?

Style settings

OPTION	DEFAULT	GGPLOT2	MATLAB®	B&W
Main font	Helvetica 12	Arial 11	Helvetica 14	LaTeX/Roman 8
Font Scaling	–	Axis Font: -17%	–	Axis Font: -23%
Colors	Qualitative ColorBrewer	6 Hue Pallet GGPLOT2	RGB Triplet MathWorks.com	Black & White
Error Color	red	black	black	black
Box Style	One Box	Only Axis	Axis Box	Axis Box
Grid	–	x & y	–	–
Grid Line Style	–	Solid, White, width=pen	–	–
Minor Grid	–	x & y	–	–
Minor Grid Style	–	Solid, White, width=pen/2	–	–
Tick marks	Outside	Outside	Inside	Outside
Tick mark Size	Medium	Small	Medium	Medium
Minor Tick marks	On	–	–	On
Mirrored	–	–	On	–

The GGPLOT2 color hex codes were obtained by running the following code in R.

library(scales)
show_col(hue_pal()(6))

HEX CODES: #00BFC4, #F8766D, #619CFF, #B79F00, #F564E3, #00BA38

Canvas settings

OPTION	DEFAULT	GGPLOT2	MATLAB®	B&W
Size	5in,3in	5in,3in	8in,6in	2.5in,2in
Title Position	Axis Center	Axis Left	Axis Center	None
Title Font	Main font	Main font Scaled +30%	Main font Bold	–
Axis Background	–	#E6E6E6	–	–
Grid	None	Major	None	None

Axis settings

OPTION	DEFAULT	GGPLOT2	MATLAB®	B&W
Size	5in,3in	5in,3in	8in,6in	2.5in,2in
Title Position	Axis Center	Axis Left	Axis Center	None
Title Font	Main font	Main font Scaled +30%	Main font Bold	–
Axis Background	–	#E6E6E6	–	–
Draw x/y	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Extra Axis	–	X & Y	–	–
Drawing Style	–	No Line	–	–

Other settings

GGPLOT2

• Axis Below Zero
• No Lines Around Fill
• Legend Center Right

MatLab

• Bar Width = 0.5
• Between Bars = 0.05

Black & White

• Fill Types set to pattern