Stata graph schemes

In this guide learn how to create your own Stata graph schemes. Additionally, this guide also releases a host of new schemes for your day-to-day Stata use:

The Stata Guide schemes: https://github.com/asjadnaqvi/Stata-schemes

Stata schemes are templates that define how graph are drawn. The scheme files are text files with a .scheme extension that can be modified and saved in your local directory for use. These text files are fairly extensive with well over 1700 options for fine tuning various graph elements including colors, backgrounds, sizes, legends, text etc.

Despite the flexibility of generating schemes, surprisingly little has been produced over the years. Some of the popular themes that have come out in the past years are the plotplain and plottig released in the blindschemes package (Bischof 2017):

ssc install blindschemes, replace

The plotplain scheme has been further modified by Mize (2018) to come up with the cleanplot scheme, which I also frequently recommend for my guides:

net install cleanplots, from("https://tdmize.github.io/data/cleanplots")

Other schemes are also floating around the internet, but one rarely sees them being used. This official Stata article covers several of them: