# Show HN: Better Graphs – Teach agents to stop making plain Matplotlib slop

> Source: <https://temataro.github.io/better-graphs/>
> Published: 2026-06-28 06:54:30+00:00

[https://github.com/temataro/better-graphs](https://github.com/temataro/better-graphs)

I want to teach good Matplotlib taste to agents and humans. This repo contains: 1. Agent instructions + design motifs (Claude Code skills + a CLAUDE.md). 2. An online "blog" tutorial of the same skills, for people. 3. minerva.mplstyle, my opinionated sane matplotlib defaults.

Inspired by Tufte's book: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (a gift from my boss!), plus data-to-viz.com and the python-graph-gallery. Aiming for halfway to the gorgeous plots in the paid matplotlib-journey.com, but free and open to share with friends. :)

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48705038](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48705038)

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