sci-figures
Use to finalize Science display items — panel/word budget, column-width sizing, minimum font sizes, color-accessibility, and showing the data (points over bars). Enforces figure rigor before submission.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill sci-figures --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Display Items (sci-figures) ## When to trigger - Figure count exceeds the format budget (Report ≤4, Article ≤6). - Fonts are unreadable at print size, or colors are not colorblind-safe. - Bar charts hide the underlying data (no points, no n). - Panels are screenshots of software output pasted into the figure. ## Sizing for Science columns Design figures to render at final print width without rescaling text: - **1 column** ≈ 5.5 cm wide - **2 columns** ≈ 12 cm wide - **Full page** ≈ 18 cm wide - Minimum font in the final figure: **~6 pt** (sans-serif, e.g., Helvetica/Arial). Text must stay legible after reduction. - Line weights ≥ 0.5 pt; avoid hairlines that vanish in print. ## Show the data, not just the summary - Replace bar-of-means with **dot plots / box+points / violins+points** wherever n is small. - Always state **n** (and what n is: cells? animals? independent experiments?) in the legend. - Error bars must be **defined** in the legend (SD vs SEM vs 95% CI) — never undefined. - For images (blots, micrographs): show **scale bars**, and present full, uncropped key blots in Supplementary. ## Color and accessibility - Use a **colorblind-safe palette** (avoid red/green as the o
- When to trigger
- Sizing for Science columns
- Show the data, not just the summary
- Color and accessibility
- Figure legend structure
- Integrity rules (non-negotiable)
- Multi-panel discipline
- Figure pass for Science
- Output format
- Anti-patterns
What does the sci-figures skill do?
Use to finalize Science display items — panel/word budget, column-width sizing, minimum font sizes, color-accessibility, and showing the data (points over bars). Enforces figure rigor before submission.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill sci-figures --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.