Paper Style — Academic Color Theme System

5 low-saturation themes (red/blue/gold/green/purple) for unified LaTeX + matplotlib visual identity.

Choose the scope

• Personal technical report: init may use the licensed mystyle.cls and its report preamble.
• Existing venue/manuscript: preserve class, fonts, margins, anonymity, bibliography and build configuration. Use init --inject only when a palette change is requested.
• Figures/theme maintenance: guard follows the existing visual system. Ordinary prose editing does not authorize introducing a palette or replacing a template.

Modes

Arguments for init:

• --theme NAME: red (default), blue, gold, green, purple
• --inject: copy palette files only; do not modify the existing class or load report components

Read and execute the corresponding guide file.

Themes

Templates

Quick Reference — Guard Mode

Python figures:

from paper_palette import apply_theme, get_colormap
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.style.use("academic.mplstyle")
theme = apply_theme()  # reads DEFAULT_THEME
plt.plot(x, y, color=theme["primary"])
plt.imshow(data, cmap=get_colormap())

LaTeX tables:

• Ranking: \fst{val} / \snd{val} / \trd{val}
• Heatmap cells: \cellcolor{perf30} through \cellcolor{perf80}
• Emphasis: \textcolor{accent_primary}{text}

Theme switch (guard mode): update \themename in colors.tex + DEFAULT_THEME in paper_palette.py atomically.

Before delivery, distinguish files initialized, theme consistency checked, build passed and PDF visually inspected. Compile using the existing project toolchain and inspect affected pages; a successful file copy is not layout validation. Use scripts/init_paper_style.py for file setup. Host invocation syntax belongs in the README, not in shared execution instructions.