A precise & pristine ggplot2 theme with opinionated defaults and an emphasis on typography

This theme is superseded by tntp_style().

Usage

theme_tntp_2018(
  base_family = "Segoe UI",
  base_size = 11.5,
  plot_title_family = base_family,
  plot_title_size = 18,
  plot_title_face = "bold",
  plot_title_margin = 10,
  subtitle_family = base_family,
  subtitle_size = 12,
  subtitle_face = "plain",
  subtitle_margin = 15,
  strip_text_family = base_family,
  strip_text_size = 12,
  strip_text_face = "plain",
  caption_family = base_family,
  caption_size = 9,
  caption_face = "italic",
  caption_margin = 10,
  axis_text = TRUE,
  axis_text_size = base_size,
  axis_title_family = subtitle_family,
  axis_title_size = 9,
  axis_title_face = "plain",
  axis_title_just = "rt",
  plot_margin = ggplot2::margin(30, 30, 30, 30),
  grid_col = "grey93",
  grid = TRUE,
  axis_col = "#cccccc",
  axis = FALSE,
  ticks = FALSE
)

Arguments

base_family, base_size: base font family and size
plot_title_family, plot_title_face, plot_title_size, plot_title_margin: plot title family, face, size and margi
subtitle_family, subtitle_face, subtitle_size: plot subtitle family, face and size
subtitle_margin: plot subtitle margin bottom (single numeric value)
strip_text_family, strip_text_face, strip_text_size: facet label font family, face and size
caption_family, caption_face, caption_size, caption_margin: plot caption family, face, size and margin
axis_text: add x or y axes text? X, Y
axis_text_size: font size of axis text
axis_title_family, axis_title_face, axis_title_size: axis title font family, face and size
axis_title_just: axis title font justification, one of [blmcrt]
plot_margin: plot margin (specify with ggplot2::margin())
grid_col, axis_col: grid & axis colors; both default to #cccccc
grid: panel grid (TRUE, FALSE, or a combination of X, x, Y, y)
axis: add x or y axes? TRUE, FALSE, "xy"
ticks: ticks if TRUE add ticks

Value

a ggplot theme object.

Building upon `theme_tntp`

The function is setup in such a way that you can customize your own one by just wrapping the call and changing the parameters. See source for examples.

Gotchas

There are distinctions between font names and various devices. Names that work for display graphics devices and bitmap ones such as png may not work well for PostScript or PDF ones. You may need two versions of a font-based theme function for them to work in a particular situation. This situation usually only arises when using a newer font with many weights but somewhat irregular internal font name patterns.

There is an option hrbrthemes.loadfonts which – if set to TRUE – will call extrafont::loadfonts() to register non-core fonts with R PDF & PostScript devices. If you are running under Windows, the package calls the same function to register non-core fonts with the Windows graphics device.

Examples

library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)

# seminal scatterplot
ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +
  geom_point() +
  labs(
    x = "Fuel effiiency (mpg)", y = "Weight (tons)",
    title = "Seminal ggplot2 scatterplot example",
    subtitle = "A plot that is only useful for demonstration purposes",
    caption = "Brought to you by the letter 'g'"
  ) +
  tntp_style(family = 'sans')


# seminal bar chart
count(mpg, class) %>%
  ggplot(aes(class, n)) +
  geom_col() +
  geom_text(aes(label = n), nudge_y = 3) +
  labs(
    x = "Fuel efficiency (mpg)", y = "Weight (tons)",
    title = "Seminal ggplot2 bar chart example",
    subtitle = "A plot that is only useful for demonstration purposes",
    caption = "Brought to you by the letter 'g'"
  ) +
  tntp_style(family = 'sans') +
  theme(axis.text.y = element_blank())