Figure Style
Publication-grade figure correctness and legibility rules for final-deliverable figures...
Install
npx skills add Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills --skill figure-style -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills646
- Category
- Testing
- Updated
- 22d ago
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 3,000 tokens
- Runs scripts
- Yes, review before use
What it does
Publication-grade figure correctness and legibility rules for final-deliverable figures, not every plot. Quick look or iterating on the analysis (EDA scatters, sanity-check histograms)? Plot plainly without this skill. Producing a figure that ships, report, paper, export, or kept artifact, load this skill first and call `apply_figure_style()`, sets a role-mapped font-size ladder, outward ticks, frameless legends, and 300-dpi output. The skill is a checklist, not a house look: data fidelity (claim-titles tested against every row, excluded data never enters summaries), label economy (floor and ceiling), color threading, chart-choice-by-data-shape, layout, and a render-then-verify QA loop (bbox collision + per-panel perceptual check). Ships helpers: focal_palette, bar_with_points, strip_with_median, end_of_line_labels, panel_letter, set_frame, panel_crops. For figure planning (one claim per figure, panel roles) use `figure-planner`; for the full Nature figure production workflow use `nature-figure`.
Publication-Grade Figure Rules
A checklist for correct, legible, internally-consistent scientific figures. This
skill does not impose a visual house style, frame, font, and palette are
parameters. Once loaded, call apply_figure_style() before plotting.
Dependencies
The prose checklist (§0, §9) is dependency-free: it is guidance you apply by hand.
The kernel.py helpers require matplotlib, numpy, and scipy
(scipy.stats.t, used by bar_with_points(errorbar="ci95") for the
t-distribution 95% CI). In a plain skill install the helpers are not
auto-loaded by a host kernel; load them explicitly before calling
apply_figure_style() and the other helpers, e.g. exec(open("kernel.py").read())
or import the module (import kernel).
§0 Scope
Load trigger: this skill is for final-deliverable figures, those shipping in a report, paper, or export, or saved as an artifact the user will keep, not for exploratory/intermediate plots (quick looks, EDA, sanity checks), which are drawn plainly without it. Once loaded, "every plot" below means every plot you render toward the deliverable.
§1, §3, §8, and §9 are correctness, they apply to every plot, in every
context, and have no aesthetic content. §4, §7 are guidance, defaults that
produce a clean result but that a deliberate alternative can override
(individual rules inside §4, §7 that state a factual/perceptual invariant, e.g.
§4.4 semantic-zero centering, §4.5 CVD, §6.9 leader anchoring, still bind). On
its own, this skill is the inner tier (make one plot good); figure-planner
supplies per-figure planning (one claim per figure, panel roles) and
nature-figure supplies the full multi-panel, whole-paper production workflow.
