Is there any way we could permanently set the graphregion(fcolor(white))?

[Rahul Raoniar]

I like white plotting background. So, to make it white, I have to set the graph region color option for every plot manually.

For example:

sysuse mpg
twoway (scatter mpg weight, graphregion(fcolor(white)))

I would like to set the

graphregion(fcolor(white))

option permanently for Stata. Is there any way to do that?

[Ali Atia]

If you like all of the other default options, you can create your own custom scheme which replicates the default scheme and only changes the background color. Create a new file called scheme-s2colorwhite.scheme containing the following text:

#include s2color
color background white

Save this file to your personal directory, which you can find by typing -sysdir- into Stata. Make sure the file extension is .scheme, rather than .txt or anything else.

Now set this scheme as the new default by typing:

set scheme s2colorwhite, permanently

into Stata.

All of your graphs should now have a white background by default.

See -help scheme_files- for more information on creating your own scheme.

[Rahul Raoniar]

Thank you, Ali Atia 👏👏. Now I'm using the Stata scheme developed by Professor Asjad Naqvi (https://github.com/asjadnaqvi/Stata-schemes). I really like the Tableau scheme🥰.