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Planning a clean diagram: what the PGF/TikZ manual says about figure design
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What this guide covers
A source note for anyone making diagrams or figures for papers, slides or books. It condenses the PGF/TikZ manual's guidance on planning, captions, consistent fonts and colours, labels and avoiding distractions. It is based on four files read as text, so nothing was compiled or tested.
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Planning a clean diagram: what the PGF/TikZ manual says about figure design
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A source note for anyone making diagrams or figures for papers, slides or books. It condenses the PGF/TikZ manual's guidance on planning, captions, consistent fonts and colours, labels and avoiding distractions. It is based on four files read as text, so nothing was compiled or tested.
Useful starting points
- Give a stand-alone figure a caption that makes it understandable by itself, with a reference to it in the main text.
- If you only have a few numbers, the manual suggests a table may serve better than a plot.
- The manual advises against telling curves apart with dashed or dotted patterns; colour groups better.
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