Custom Theme for scg Plots — theme

theme_scg provides a custom ggplot2 theme tailored for scg plots. This theme modifies various aspects of ggplot2 plots, including fonts, colors, panel spacing, and legend formatting, to create a visually consistent and appealing style.

Usage

theme_scg(base_size = 10, base_font = "")

Arguments

base_size: Base font size for text elements in the plot (default is 10).
base_font: Font family for text elements. See names(pdfFonts()) for available options. Default is an empty string, which uses the ggplot2 default font.

Value

A ggplot2 theme object that can be applied to ggplot2 plots.

Details

The function customizes various components of a ggplot2 plot, including the plot title, axis titles and texts, panel background, grid lines, legend, and more. The theme aims to provide a clean, professional look suitable for scg-style visualizations. Users can specify the base font size and family to further customize the appearance.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
  ggplot(data = df, aes(x = x, y = y, fill = reorder(group, y))) +
    geom_bar(stat = "identity", width = 0.8, position = position_dodge(width = 0.9), alpha = 1) +
    scale_fill_manual(values = colour_pal("catExtended")) +
    labs(title = "Title", fill = y, x = x, y = y) +
    theme_scg()
} # }