RESOURCES
Guides, use cases, and reference material for better figures.
Everything on this page is about making scientific figures — with PaperPict or without it.
GUIDES
How-to guides
How to make a graphical abstract that editors actually use
A graphical abstract is read in five seconds. Here is how to earn those five seconds.
Read guide →Scientific figure requirements: what major journals ask for
Sizes, resolutions, fonts, and file formats for the publishers researchers submit to most.
Read guide →Colour-blind-safe scientific figures: a practical checklist
Roughly one in twelve men and one in two hundred women cannot reliably separate red from green. Your figure should still work for them.
Read guide →From whiteboard sketch to publication figure in one afternoon
A workflow for turning the drawing you made during a lab meeting into a figure you can submit.
Read guide →Conference poster design checklist
Twenty questions to answer before you send the file to the printer.
Read guide →The PRISMA 2020 flow diagram, explained box by box
What each number means, where reviewers look for mistakes, and how to make the arithmetic balance.
Read guide →USE CASES
By field
Life sciences
Signalling pathways, cell diagrams, CRISPR workflows, and experimental designs.
Learn more →Medicine and clinical research
Trial flow diagrams, patient pathways, anatomy schematics, and journal-styled figures for NEJM, Lancet, and JAMA.
Learn more →Chemistry and materials
Reaction schemes, synthesis workflows, characterisation panels, and TOC graphics.
Learn more →Engineering and computer science
System architectures, circuit schematics, pipelines, and algorithm overviews.
Learn more →Ecology and evolution
Phylogenies, food webs, sampling maps, and life-cycle diagrams.
Learn more →Teaching and science communication
Lecture slides, explainer figures, and outreach graphics that stay editable across semesters.
Learn more →Blog
Product updates and opinions on the craft of scientific figures.
Learn more →Glossary
Definitions for figure, export, and publishing terms used across the site.
Learn more →Security and data
How manuscripts, sketches, and figures are stored, processed, and deleted.
Learn more →For labs
Shared credits, palettes, and templates for research groups.
Learn more →Put a guide into practice.
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