What problem does it solve?
This Skill eliminates the repetitive, error-prone work of manually styling plots for papers by providing ready-to-run Matplotlib figure templates with consistent fonts and a publication-friendly color palette.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Publication styling baked in: Palatino body with STIX math to match arXiv-like typography, plus paper-friendly Google brand colors with a controllable softness tier.
- Multiple figure types: Vertical/horizontal bar charts, ablation-friendly horizontal bars, boxplots with ordered gradients, and several line/scatter variants including log scales and broken y-axes.
- Copy-and-adapt workflow: Each template is a single .py file with illustrative placeholder data and clear instructions to replace labels/data and add your own savefig.
Quick Start
Use the plot skill to generate a single publication-ready figure by running the appropriate template (for example, 20_line_multi.py) in your figures folder, replacing placeholder labels and data with your own, and adding fig.savefig('out.pdf') before execution.