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prl-figures

Use when designing or auditing figures for a Physical Review Letters manuscript, where a few high-impact figures must carry the central result and count against the length limit. Designs figure strategy; does not run the analysis or write prose.

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# PRL Figures (prl-figures)

## When to trigger

- You have many candidate figures and need to choose a few
- Your lead figure does not convey the central result at a glance
- Panels are dense, captions are long, or symbols are unreadable at column width
- You are over length and figures (which count against the limit) are a target
- A coauthor wants to "add one more panel just in case"

## Figure strategy for a Letter

A Letter carries **a few high-impact figures only** — typically on the order of three or four, sometimes fewer. Every figure must earn its place against the deductible length limit (figures consume the word budget; see `prl-length-management`). The hierarchy:
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