Tools
Tools for figure (re-)design
Note: all initial recommendation here are free/libre and open source software
Sketching, outlining, freehand drawing
Vector Drawing
Photo editing / analysis
Icons, Emoji, and other graphical assets
Programmatic Graphics
- R
- ggplot2
- tidyHeatmap & ComplexHeatmap
- Can handle both simple and highly complicated heatmaps, including for large datasets
- includes a good implementation of UpSet plots
- Python
- matplotlib
- plotnine an implementation of ggplot2 in python
- altair another grammar of graphics based python visualisation library
- multi-language / language agnostic