graphs: options

[lisa bäcker]

Hello,

is there an option I can use to change colour and type of writing for my graphs?
For exmaple I need Stata to create all descriptions in my graphs in Times New Roman 12.

Thanks in advance
Lisa

[Roman Mostazir]

Assuming you are working form a *.do file. To change the font:

graph set window fontface "Times New Roman"

In order to get back to original font style:

graph set window fontface default

The size of texts can be used with small/medium/v.small/large etc. options and color of texts can be changed within graph options.

[lisa bäcker]

thank you very much.
It is no problem to change the writing, but I am not sure how to change the color of the title in black in my case:

graph twoway (line A B DATE, clcolor(red blue)), title("Date")  xlabel(1 "2000" 2 "2002" 3 "2003" ) graphregion(fcolor(white))  xtitle("Date ytitle("Deposit")

Thanks in advance

[wbuchanan]

The development version of the brewscheme package (https://wbuchanan.github.io/brewscheme/brewtheme) has new features that would allow you to create a scheme file with standardized font sizes. I've not yet gotten around to putting together a helpfile for brewtheme, but you would use that prior to creating the scheme file (adjusts graph specific aesthetic properties).

[Friedrich Huebler]

It is no problem to change the writing, but I am not sure how to change the color of the title in black in my case:

This is all explained in the help files. If you start with help graph and click all the way through to help colorstyle you will have looked at the help files below.

help graph
help graph_twoway
help line
help twoway_options
help title_options
help textbox_options
help colorstyle

Here is an example of a graph with a red title.

sysuse uslifeexp, clear
line le year, title("Red text", color(red))

[lisa bäcker]

thank you very much !

[wbuchanan]

lisa bäcker Additionally, I am currently getting some additional features added to brewscheme that make it easier for users to add named color styles to Stata - including a utility that installs the colors from the XKCD color name survey from 2010 in Stata. You should also be able to pass an RGB string like:

sysuse uslifeexp, clear
line le year, title("Red text", color("255 0 0"))

To get purely red colored text.