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Use whenever you generate a chart, plot, or figure with matplotlib (or seaborn) in this workspace. Applies the Open Science publication figure style so every generated figure is publication-grade and shares one palette with the app's native charts. Not for interactive plotly/HTML — those follow the same palette manually.

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Publication Figures

Make generated figures publication-grade and on-system by default. Every figure you produce with matplotlib must use the bundled Open Science style, so a figure in a report and a stat tile in the app read as one design system.

Apply the style (always, before plotting)

The style file openscience.mplstyle sits next to this SKILL.md. Load it by absolute path at the top of any figure script:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from pathlib import Path

# This skill's directory — the style ships beside SKILL.md.
STYLE = Path(__file__).resolve().parent / "openscience.mplstyle" if "__file__" in dir() else None
# In a notebook/agent cell, use the skill's deployed path directly:
plt.style.use(str(STYLE)) if STYLE and STYLE.exists() else plt.style.use("default")

If you cannot resolve the path, set the palette inline (same hexes as below).

The shared palette (single source of truth)

These are the exact hues the app's native charts use. Assign categorical series in this fixed order — never a different order, never a cycled 9th hue.

Slot	Hue	Light hex
1	blue	`#2a78d6`
2	aqua	`#1baf7a`
3	yellow	`#eda100`
4	green	`#008300`
5	violet	`#4a3aa7`
6	red	`#e34948`
7	magenta	`#e87ba4`
8	orange	`#eb6834`

Sequential (magnitude, one hue light→dark): #cde2fb #9ec5f4 #6da7ec #3987e5 #256abf #184f95 #104281. Diverging: blue ↔ red with a neutral gray midpoint.

Rules (from the app's dataviz standard)

One y-axis. Never two scales on one plot — use two charts or index to a common base.
Categorical color = identity, assigned in slot order; sequential = one hue by magnitude; diverging = two hues + gray midpoint. Never a rainbow.
Thin marks, recessive chrome: 2px lines, ≥6pt markers, hairline y-grid only, no top/right spines (the style sets these).
Label selectively — the endpoint or the extreme, never a number on every point. A legend is present for ≥2 series; a single series needs none (the title names it).
Text stays in ink, never the series color. Identity comes from the mark.
Save clean: plt.savefig(path, bbox_inches="tight") (the style sets dpi).

Checklist before returning a figure

Style applied (palette + chrome from openscience.mplstyle).
Series colors assigned in slot order; ≤8 series (else group into "Other").
Single y-axis; legend iff ≥2 series; axis labels + units present.
Saved to the workspace and referenced by path so it surfaces as an artifact.