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# Comic

export const GraphEmbed = ({src, story, aspectRatio, borderRadius = '14px', args}) => {
  const STORYBOOK_BASE_URL = typeof window !== 'undefined' && window.location.hostname === 'localhost' ? 'http://localhost:6006' : 'https://storybook-sdk.vercel.app';
  function buildArgsString(args) {
    if (!args) return '';
    const encodeValue = value => {
      if (value === null) return '!null';
      if (value === undefined) return '!undefined';
      if (typeof value === 'boolean') return `!${value}`;
      if (typeof value === 'number') return String(value);
      return encodeURIComponent(String(value));
    };
    const properties = Object.entries(args).map(([key, value]) => `${key}:${encodeValue(value)}`).join(';');
    return `&args=${properties}`;
  }
  const resolvedSrc = story ? `${STORYBOOK_BASE_URL}/iframe.html?id=${story}&viewMode=story&embed=1&globals=mode:readonly${buildArgsString(args)}` : src;
  const resolvedAspectRatio = aspectRatio ?? (story ? '16 / 9' : '10 / 6');
  return <iframe src={resolvedSrc} loading="lazy" allowfullscreen="true" style={{
    width: '100%',
    aspectRatio: resolvedAspectRatio,
    border: 'none',
    borderRadius,
    colorScheme: 'light'
  }} />;
};

Comic draws graphs as a panel of a printed comic: newsprint in a black frame, the flat colors of a four-color press under its dots, a black outline and a hard shadow for every shape, and a title in capitals.

<Warning>
  Comic ships as its own package, `@graphysdk/theme-comic`, still on `0.x`. A
  minor release may change its look, so pin a caret range (`^0.1.0`) to take
  only patches. Tell us what works and what doesn't on
  [Discord](https://discord.gg/yGmYCjkSr).
</Warning>

<GraphEmbed story="themes-comic--chart" args={{ chart: 'bar' }} aspectRatio="4 / 3" borderRadius="0" />

## Install

```bash theme={null}
npm install @graphysdk/theme-comic
```

Its peer dependencies are `@graphysdk/react` and React 19. Pass the theme to `createGraphyKit` and import its fonts once:

```tsx theme={null}
import { createGraphyKit, GraphRenderer } from '@graphysdk/react';
import { comic } from '@graphysdk/theme-comic';
import '@graphysdk/theme-comic/fonts.css';

const kit = createGraphyKit({ theme: comic });
```

Every graph drawn through `kit.GraphProvider` takes the theme. The spec is written as usual and names no theme:

```tsx theme={null}
const spec = kit.pipe(
  kit.createSpec({ x: 'quarter', y: 'revenue', color: 'region' }),
  kit.geom.bar({ position: 'dodge' }),
  kit.scale.x(),
  kit.scale.y()
);

<kit.GraphProvider spec={spec} data={data}>
  <GraphRenderer />
</kit.GraphProvider>;
```

Without a kit, pass the theme to the provider instead: `<GraphProvider theme={comic}>`.

The provider reads the theme once, when it mounts. To switch themes, remount the provider, for example with a React `key`.

## What the theme decides

| Part | What Comic sets |
| - | - |
| Stylesheet | Newsprint with a patch of screen tone in a square black frame, printed dots over every shape, a black outline and a hard black shadow under each shape, thick round lines, text notes lettered as sound effects |
| Colors | Vermillion, cyan, yellow, magenta, green and purple for groups, and a ramp from yellow through orange to red |
| Geoms | Pies and donuts as a burst, each slice cut at its exact angle; points as little bursts; bars, lines, areas and tiles keep the built-in renderer |
| Color scheme | Light, whatever `colorScheme` the provider is given |

<GraphEmbed story="themes-comic--chart" args={{ chart: 'line' }} aspectRatio="4 / 3" borderRadius="0" />

## Changing the look of one graph

A spec's own `styles()`, scales and `config()` sit above the theme. This graph keeps the panel and prints its bars flat, with no dots and no shadow:

```tsx theme={null}
kit.pipe(
  spec,
  kit.styles({
    defaults: [kit.style.geom.bar({ overlay: 'none', shadow: 'none' })],
  })
);
```

The theme is drawn for a graph about 600 pixels wide. `style.graph({ textScale })` scales its type for a larger or smaller one.

## With a geom package

Comic repaints only pies, donuts and points. Every other geom, and a geom from a package such as the [dumbbell](/sdk-next/graph-types/dumbbell), keeps its own renderer and takes the theme's colors, outline, shadow and type.

```tsx theme={null}
import { dumbbell } from '@graphysdk/geom-dumbbell';

const kit = createGraphyKit({ theme: comic, plugins: [dumbbell] });
```

## Fonts

`fonts.css` loads Bangers for the title and Comic Neue for the rest from Google Fonts. To host the fonts yourself, leave the import out and load families named `Bangers` and `Comic Neue` before the first graph is drawn.


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