# Flagship Nature visual starting style
# Usage: plt.style.use('nature.mplstyle')
#
# Snapshot source accessed 2026-07-23:
# https://research-figure-guide.nature.com/figures/preparing-figures-our-specifications
# This preset does not establish submission compliance.

# Figure properties
figure.dpi: 100
figure.facecolor: white
figure.constrained_layout.use: False
figure.figsize: 3.503937, 2.625  # 89 mm single-column starting width

# Font properties (Nature prefers smaller fonts)
font.size: 7
font.family: sans-serif
font.sans-serif: Arial, Helvetica, DejaVu Sans

# Axes properties
axes.linewidth: 0.5
axes.labelsize: 7
axes.titlesize: 7
axes.labelweight: normal
axes.spines.top: False
axes.spines.right: False
axes.edgecolor: black
axes.axisbelow: True
axes.grid: False
axes.prop_cycle: cycler('color', ['0072B2', 'D55E00', '009E73', 'CC79A7', '000000'])

# Tick properties
xtick.major.size: 2.5
xtick.minor.size: 1.5
xtick.major.width: 0.5
xtick.minor.width: 0.4
xtick.labelsize: 6
xtick.direction: out
ytick.major.size: 2.5
ytick.minor.size: 1.5
ytick.major.width: 0.5
ytick.minor.width: 0.4
ytick.labelsize: 6
ytick.direction: out

# Line properties
lines.linewidth: 1.0
lines.markersize: 3
lines.markeredgewidth: 0.4

# Legend properties
legend.fontsize: 6
legend.frameon: False

# Save properties; DPI affects embedded raster artists in vector output.
savefig.dpi: 450
savefig.format: pdf
savefig.bbox: standard
savefig.pad_inches: 0.05
savefig.transparent: False
savefig.facecolor: white
savefig.edgecolor: white

pdf.fonttype: 42
ps.fonttype: 42
svg.fonttype: none

# Image properties
image.cmap: viridis