Chapter 13: Designing Plot Themes

In the previous chapter, we saw many attributes that can be useful when customizing individual plots. In this chapter, we will learn how to reuse such customizations with the help of plot themes. In particular, we will explore themes with Plots, Makie, and Gadfly. We will see how to find and set their predefined themes. But also, we will learn how to create reusable themes to help us produce publication-quality figures.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topic:

  • Working with themes

Technical requirements

For this chapter, you will need the following:  

  • Julia 1.6 or higher
  • Pluto
  • A web browser
  • An internet connection  

The code examples and the Pluto notebooks, including their HTML versions ...

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