ggplot2: theme_black()

README.md

Black theme for ggplot2

This is an additional theme for ggplot2 that generates an inverse black and white color scheme.

Example

ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) + geom_point()
# Add theme_black()
ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) + geom_point(color = "white") + theme_black()

theme_black.R

library(ggplot2)
library(gridExtra)

theme_black = function(base_size = 12, base_family = "") {
  
  theme_grey(base_size = base_size, base_family = base_family) %+replace%
    
    theme(
      # Specify axis options
      axis.line = element_blank(),  
      axis.text.x = element_text(size = base_size*0.8, color = "white", lineheight = 0.9),  
      axis.text.y = element_text(size = base_size*0.8, color = "white", lineheight = 0.9),  
      axis.ticks = element_line(color = "white", size  =  0.2),  
      axis.title.x = element_text(size = base_size, color = "white", margin = margin(0, 10, 0, 0)),  
      axis.title.y = element_text(size = base_size, color = "white", angle = 90, margin = margin(0, 10, 0, 0)),  
      axis.ticks.length = unit(0.3, "lines"),   
      # Specify legend options
      legend.background = element_rect(color = NA, fill = "black"),  
      legend.key = element_rect(color = "white",  fill = "black"),  
      legend.key.size = unit(1.2, "lines"),  
      legend.key.height = NULL,  
      legend.key.width = NULL,      
      legend.text = element_text(size = base_size*0.8, color = "white"),  
      legend.title = element_text(size = base_size*0.8, face = "bold", hjust = 0, color = "white"),  
      legend.position = "right",  
      legend.text.align = NULL,  
      legend.title.align = NULL,  
      legend.direction = "vertical",  
      legend.box = NULL, 
      # Specify panel options
      panel.background = element_rect(fill = "black", color  =  NA),  
      panel.border = element_rect(fill = NA, color = "white"),  
      panel.grid.major = element_line(color = "grey35"),  
      panel.grid.minor = element_line(color = "grey20"),  
      panel.margin = unit(0.5, "lines"),   
      # Specify facetting options
      strip.background = element_rect(fill = "grey30", color = "grey10"),  
      strip.text.x = element_text(size = base_size*0.8, color = "white"),  
      strip.text.y = element_text(size = base_size*0.8, color = "white",angle = -90),  
      # Specify plot options
      plot.background = element_rect(color = "black", fill = "black"),  
      plot.title = element_text(size = base_size*1.2, color = "white"),  
      plot.margin = unit(rep(1, 4), "lines")
      
    )
  
}

Hi Jon, great theme. This is still the top google search result for "ggplot white on black theme." Since this is a gist I can't make a pull request but it would be great if you could update the argument names so that this no longer returns the following warning message:

panel.margin is deprecated. Please use panel.spacing property instead