figure-style

Publication-grade figure correctness and legibility rules for final-deliverable figures — not every plot. Quick look or iterating on the analysis (EDA scatters, sanity-check histograms)? Plot plainly without this skill. Producing a figure that ships — report, paper, export, or kept artifact — load this skill first and call apply_figure_style() — sets a role-mapped font-size ladder, outward ticks, frameless legends, and 300-dpi output. The skill is a checklist, not a house look: data fidelity (claim-titles tested against every row, excluded data never enters summaries), label economy (floor and ceiling), color threading, chart-choice-by-data-shape, layout, and a render-then-verify QA loop (bbox collision + per-panel perceptual check). Ships helpers: focal_palette, bar_with_points, strip_with_median, end_of_line_labels, panel_letter, set_frame, panel_crops. For figure planning (one claim per figure, panel roles) use figure-planner; for the full Nature figure production workflow use nature-figure.