figure-style

Figure Style

Use before producing or revising any single plot or panel.

Checklist

1. Pick the chart type from the data shape and the claim, not from decoration.
2. Label axes with units, define transformations, and show uncertainty or replicate structure when it exists.
3. Use colour only for meaningful grouping; keep palettes accessible and consistent across panels.
4. Render and inspect text, tick labels, legends, clipping, and overplotting before saving.
5. Save both the image and the code/data needed to regenerate it.
6. In notebooks, end every plotting cell with plt.show(); — the trailing semicolon suppresses the stray Matplotlib repr/text so only the figure shows.

A polished plot with unverifiable data is not acceptable — preserve provenance first. For multi-panel assembly use /figure-composer; for manuscript figure conventions defer to /project-to-paper.

Adapted from companion-inc/feynman (MIT). See ../ATTRIBUTION.md.