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Stata for Graphs
Resources – Schemes and Palettes
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Color Palette ……………………………………………………………………………………...
Symbol Palette …………………………………………………………………………………...
Marker Size Palette ………………………………………………………………………………
Line Type Palette ………………………………………………………………………………...
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Stata Graph Schemes
Stata offers a command called scheme that defines the overall appearance of your graph. This has to do
with whether or not there is a box around your plot, whether or not there is shading, the color of the lines and
bars, etc.
The default scheme is s2color.
To obtain a listing of the available schemes
Type the following in the command window: . graph query, schemes
Note! You may get a slightly smaller set of schemes. This is because I have downloaded some additional schemes.
. graph query, schemes
There are two ways to set the graph scheme
Method 1: Using the set scheme command prior to specifying your graph
. set scheme schemename
Example: . set scheme lean1
Method 2: Using the graph option scheme( ) within your graph command
, scheme(schemename)
Example: , scheme(lean1)
Tip! How To Set Your Favorite Scheme as the default
Suppose you want the scheme lean1 to be the default scheme.
Type the following in the command window
. set scheme lean1, permanently
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Illustrations of Selected Graph Schemes
Default is s2color (no changes made yet)
. * DEFAULT SCHEME
. scatter mpg weight,title("DEFAULT SCHEME") xlabel(1500(500)5000) ylabel(10(10)50) msymbol(o)
s1color
. * s1color SCHEME
. set scheme s1color
. scatter mpg weight,title("s1color SCHEME") xlabel(1500(500)5000) ylabel(10(10)50) msymbol(o)
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s1mono
. * s1mono
. set scheme s1mono
. scatter mpg weight,title("s1mono SCHEME") xlabel(1500(500)5000) ylabel(10(10)50) msymbol(o)
lean1
. * lean1
. set scheme lean1
. scatter mpg weight,title("lean1 SCHEME") xlabel(1500(500)5000) ylabel(10(10)50) msymbol(o)
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lean2
. * lean1
. set scheme lean2
. scatter mpg weight,title("lean2 SCHEME") xlabel(1500(500)5000) ylabel(10(10)50) msymbol(o)
economist
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Key to Plot Area
title
subtitle
ytitle
ylabel graph is here
xlabel
xtitle
Key to Positions
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Color Palette
black gs0 gs1 gs2 gs3 gs4
gs5 gs6 gs7 gs8 gs9 gs10
gs11 gs12 gs13 gs14 gs15 gs16
white blue bluishgray brown cranberry cyan
dimgray dkgreen dknavy dkorange eggshell emerald
forest_green gold gray green khaki lavender
lime ltblue ltbluishgray ltkhaki magenta maroon
midblue midgreen mint navy olive olive_teal
orange orange_red pink purple red sand
sandb sienna stone teal yellow ebg
ebblue edkblue eltblue eltgreen emidblue erose
Color Map of Standard Stata Colors
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Symbol Palette
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Marker Size Palette
.* To see your marker size choices
.showmarkers, over(msize)
.* To set your your marker size, include in your graph options
msize( )
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Line Type Palette
.* To see your line type choices
.palette linepalette
.* To set your line type, include in your graph options
linetype( )
