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My biggest grip with Gnuplot was that the default style is pretty terrible. For everyone looking to make graphs, two pieces of advice:

- Use pngcairo, or pdfcairo or something like that. Nobody likes graphs without anti-aliasing.

- Use a nice color palette, from https://github.com/Gnuplotting/gnuplot-palettes , such as dark2 or viridis.



Good advice. Even better to use one of the vector outputs, such as SVG, when you can.




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