theme_tufte: Tufte's Maximal Data, Minimal Ink Theme

In jrnold/ggtufte: Themes and geoms implementing Tufte's work in 'ggplot2'

Description

Theme based on Chapter 6 'Data-Ink Maximization and Graphical Design' of Tufte The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. No border, no axis lines, no grids. This theme works well in combination with geom_rug or geom_rangeframe.

Usage

theme_tufte(base_size = 11, ticks = TRUE, sans_title = FALSE)

Arguments

base_size	base font size
ticks	logical Show axis ticks?
sans_title	If TRUE, then use a sans serif font for plot.title and plot.subtitle. The default is to search for a Gill Sans font, followed by Lato (distributed with ggtufte), followed by the default device "sans" font. If FALSE, then use an italic serif font. This will use ETBembo DisplayItalic (distributed with ggtufte) if installed, otherwise it will use default Palatino font.

References

Tufte, Edward R. (2001) The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Chapter 6.

Examples

library("ggplot2")
library("extrafont")
extrafont::loadfonts(quiet = TRUE)
extrafont::loadfonts("postscript", quiet = TRUE)

p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = wt, y = mpg)) +
  geom_point() +
  scale_x_continuous(breaks = pretty_range_breaks(mtcars$wt, 5)) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = pretty_range_breaks(mtcars$mpg, 5)) +
  ggtitle("Cars")

p + geom_rangeframe() +
  theme_tufte()

p + geom_rug() +
 theme_tufte(ticks = FALSE)

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