More detail is available on the following topics ...

• Colours – the chart colour cycle (colour names or hex values)
• Lines – the built-in linestyes
• Patterns – names for the standard half-tones and shading patterns
• Markers – marker names
• Nibs – nib-weights for lineplots (names or exact specification)
• Font codes – using short names for the common fonts
• Ticks – illustrates various tick-mark styles
• Date and time axes – using dates and times as axis labels
• Picture formatting – formatting numeric axis labels