font {ggpubr}

Change the Appearance of Titles and Axis Labels

Description

Change the appearance of the main title, subtitle, caption, axis labels and text, as well as the legend title and texts. Wrapper around element_text().

Usage

font(object, size = NULL, color = NULL, face = NULL, family = NULL, ...)

Arguments

object

character string specifying the plot components. Allowed values include:

• "title" for the main title

• "subtitle" for the plot subtitle

• "caption" for the plot caption

• "legend.title" for the legend title

• "legend.text" for the legend text

• "x", "xlab", or "x.title" for x axis label

• "y", "ylab", or "y.title" for y axis label

• "xy", "xylab", "xy.title" or "axis.title" for both x and y axis labels

• "x.text" for x axis texts (x axis tick labels)

• "y.text" for y axis texts (y axis tick labels)

• "xy.text" or "axis.text" for both x and y axis texts

size

numeric value specifying the font size, (e.g.: size = 12).

color

character string specifying the font color, (e.g.: color = "red").

face

the font face or style. Allowed values include one of "plain", "bold", "italic", "bold.italic", (e.g.: face = "bold.italic").

family

the font family.

...

other arguments to pass to the function element_text().

Examples

# Load data
data("ToothGrowth")

# Basic plot
p <- ggboxplot(ToothGrowth, x = "dose", y = "len", color = "dose",
              title = "Box Plot created with ggpubr",
              subtitle = "Length by dose",
              caption = "Source: ggpubr",
              xlab ="Dose (mg)", ylab = "Teeth length")
p

# Change the appearance of titles and labels
p +
 font("title", size = 14, color = "red", face = "bold.italic")+
 font("subtitle", size = 10, color = "orange")+
 font("caption", size = 10, color = "orange")+
 font("xlab", size = 12, color = "blue")+
 font("ylab", size = 12, color = "#993333")+
 font("xy.text", size = 12, color = "gray", face = "bold")

# Change the appearance of legend title and texts
p +
 font("legend.title", color = "blue", face = "bold")+
 font("legend.text", color = "red")