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.

liuyxpp/MakiePublication.jl