A modern Stata scheme for Yale University-branded data visualizations.
The Yale Stata scheme provides a quick set of options for modern-looking graphs from Stata using Yale colors. The scheme is intended for use by the Yale Economic Growth Center’s Research Team when designing visualization for presentations and social media.
The Yale scheme is available for download via ssc:
ssc install yalescheme
To use, simply specify the scheme at the start of a .do file:
set scheme yale
Or in the process of making a graph:
sysuse auto
twoway (scatter price mpg if foreign == 0) ///
(scatter price mpg if foreign == 1), scheme(yale)
The Yale scheme is intended to be used with Yale official fonts. If you are Yale EGC staff, please contact Vestal McIntyre for access to the proprietary Mallory font. Fonts are specified independently of schemes; to set the fonts for the graph window, add the following to the top of any .do file using the Yale scheme:
graph set window fontface "Mallory Thin"
graph set window fontfacemono default
graph set window fontfacesans "Mallory Thin"
graph set window fontfaceserif YaleNew
graph set window fontfacesymbol "Mallory Thin"
The Yale scheme was written by Aaron Wolf. Bugs can be reported via the repository at Github (https://github.com/aarondwolf/scheme-yale). Questions can be directed to aaron [dot] wolf [at] u [dot] northwestern [dot] edu.
This scheme used the user-written scheme cleanplots as a base, with alterations made to reflect Yale’s colors and stylistic preferences. cleanplots was created by Trenton Mize, and documentation can be found at https://www.trentonmize.com/software/cleanplots. cleanplots was itself influenced by Daniel Bischof’s very excellent plotplain scheme, documentation for which can be found at https://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=gr0070.