Gribouille - Grammar of Graphics

[mcanouil]

Gribouille (French for scribble) is a new Typst package that brings Wilkinson’s grammar of graphics natively into Typst, in the spirit of ggplot2 and plotnine .

Gribouille uses cetz as backend.

The first version was released the 20th of May 2026.

Repository: GitHub - mcanouil/gribouille: Create elegant graphics with the Grammar of Graphics for Typst. · GitHub
Documentation: Gribouille

#import "@preview/gribouille:0.3.0": *

#set page(width: 16cm, height: 10cm, margin: 0cm)

#plot(
  data: penguins,
  mapping: aes(
    x: "flipper-len",
    y: "body-mass",
    colour: "species",
    fill: "species",
  ),
  layers: (
    geom-point(size: 2pt, alpha: 0.65),
    geom-smooth(method: "lm", alpha: 0.2),
  ),
  facet: facet-wrap("island", labeller: label-both()),
  scales: (scale-y-continuous(labels: format-comma()),),
  labs: labs(
    title: "Penguin Morphology by Island",
    subtitle: "Flipper length versus body mass with a per-species linear fit",
    x: "Flipper Length (mm)",
    y: "Body Mass (g)",
    colour: "Species",
    fill: "Species",
  ),
  theme: theme-minimal(),
  guides: guides(
    colour: guide-legend(position: bottom + right),
    fill: guide-legend(position: bottom + right),
  ),
  width: auto,
  height: auto,
)

[mcanouil]

Find more “real” use cases at: TidyTuesday Gallery – TidyTuesday

[mcanouil]

Every line, star, and gradient in this chart was drawn in Typst, with Gribouille plotting its own star history.
Achieve publication-quality graphics with a single toolchain, no external plotting tools needed.

Gribouille 0.4.0 soon. Full source will ships with the announcement.

[vincentab]

This is very, very cool. Thanks for sharing!

[mcanouil]

Gribouille 0.4.0 on its way to Typst Universe.

Read the full announcement and get the code for the figure: Gribouille 0.4.0: Temporal Scales, Any-Glyph Markers, and a Finer Grid – Mickaël CANOUIL

• HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48628231

[RamkumarKB]

This is excellent package, with impressive attention to details !

[mcanouil]

Gribouille 0.5.0: Native Density, and Scales Keyed by Aesthetic

Release post: Gribouille 0.5.0: Native Density, and Scales Keyed by Aesthetic – Mickaël CANOUIL)

LinkedIn: Gribouille 0.5.0 | Mickaël CANOUIL

#import "@preview/gribouille:0.5.0": *

#let cb = (rgb("#0072B2"), rgb("#D55E00"), rgb("#009E73"))

#let stripes = tiling(size: (6pt, 6pt))[
  #place(rect(width: 100%, height: 100%, fill: cb.at(0).lighten(60%)))
  #place(line(start: (0%, 100%), end: (100%, 0%), stroke: 1pt + cb.at(0)))
]
#let dots = tiling(size: (7pt, 7pt))[
  #place(rect(width: 100%, height: 100%, fill: cb.at(1).lighten(60%)))
  #place(dx: 2pt, dy: 2pt, circle(radius: 1.5pt, fill: cb.at(1)))
]
#let cross = tiling(size: (7pt, 7pt))[
  #place(rect(width: 100%, height: 100%, fill: cb.at(2).lighten(60%)))
  #place(line(start: (0%, 100%), end: (100%, 0%), stroke: 0.8pt + cb.at(2)))
  #place(line(start: (0%, 0%), end: (100%, 100%), stroke: 0.8pt + cb.at(2)))
]

#plot(
  data: penguins,
  mapping: aes(x: "species", fill: "species"),
  layers: (geom-bar(),),
  scales: scales(fill: scale-manual(values: (stripes, dots, cross))),
  labels: labels(
    title: "Bars You Can Read in Greyscale",
    x: "Species",
    y: "Count",
    fill: "Species",
  ),
  theme: theme-minimal(),
  width: 12cm,
  height: 7cm,
)