Plotting Colour Palette (Paper Standard)

All figures in the manuscript must use the following colour palette for visual consistency and publication quality.

Primary Colours

Teal: #1B9E77
Orange: #D95F02
Indigo: #7570B3
Crimson: #E7298A
Goldenrod: #E6AB02
SlateGrey: #666666

Greyscale Support Colours

DarkGrey: #4D4D4D
MidGrey: #7F7F7F
LightGrey: #BFBFBF
VeryLightGrey: #E6E6E6

Matplotlib Style Settings

Use the following default rcParams:

import matplotlib as mpl

mpl.rcParams.update({ “figure.figsize”: (6, 4), “figure.dpi”: 300, “savefig.dpi”: 300, “font.size”: 12, “axes.titlesize”: 14, “axes.labelsize”: 12, “axes.edgecolor”: “#4D4D4D”, “axes.linewidth”: 1.0, “axes.prop_cycle”: mpl.cycler(color=[ “#1B9E77”, # Teal “#D95F02”, # Orange “#7570B3”, # Indigo “#E7298A”, # Crimson “#E6AB02”, # Goldenrod “#666666”, # Slate Grey ]), “xtick.color”: “#4D4D4D”, “ytick.color”: “#4D4D4D”, “text.color”: “#3A3A3A”, “axes.labelcolor”: “#3A3A3A”, “legend.frameon”: False, “grid.color”: “#E6E6E6”, “grid.linestyle”: “–”, })

Figure Export

All final figures must be exported as vector PDFs.
Use consistent line widths (1.0–1.5) and font sizes (≥12 pt).
Avoid nonstandard colormaps; use only the palette above.