One year of PaperPict: what we learned about figures
Eleven months, six tools, and a lot of figures. Some of what we learned we expected. Some of it we didn't.
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Notes on figures, from the people making the tool.
Product announcements, workflow guides, and opinions about the craft of scientific illustration. Published since October 2025.
PRISMA flow diagrams that balance: the new PRISMA 2020 tool
Systematic reviewers lose hours to a diagram whose main job is arithmetic. So we did the arithmetic.
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Scientific posters in an afternoon: the Poster Maker workflow
Let's be honest: most posters get made the night before. Here's how to make a good one in the time you actually have.
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Editable PPTX: the export your co-authors can actually open
Not everyone on the author list owns a vector editor. Everyone has PowerPoint.
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Colour-blind-safe by default: how PaperPict handles Okabe-Ito
Around 8% of men and 0.5% of women can't rely on red–green contrast. We changed our defaults so figures work for them even when nobody remembers to check.
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The real cost of a reviewer comment
We timed ourselves making the same correction on a flat image and on an editable figure. The gap was bigger than we expected, and it changes what people are willing to fix.
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Reference-to-figure: turning the paper itself into a graphical abstract
The paper already contains the story. We taught PaperPict to read it.
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Journal palettes: what they are and why we built them in
Publishers rarely mandate colours, but you can spot a Nature figure from across the room. Matching that look is easier than it sounds.
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Why every PaperPict figure is a layered SVG first
A bitmap is a photograph of a drawing. We wanted to hand you the drawing.
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Introducing PaperPict: scientific figures that stay editable
Today we're opening PaperPict to researchers. Here's what it does, what it deliberately doesn't do, and why the thing it gives you is a drawing rather than a picture.
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Free to start. No credit card. Every element stays editable.