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Text to Figure: describe it generate it, publish it

Text to figure turns a sentence — a signaling pathway, an experimental workflow, a model architecture — into a clean, journal-quality scientific figure in seconds, rendered by the AI workbench below. It is a natural fit for biology figures, machine learning diagrams, and medical figures. No drawing, no design software. Every label, arrow, and color in the scientific figure stays editable afterward.

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†Type a prompt below and watch text to figure turn it into a scientific figure

Text to figure result: a publication-quality scientific figure of a lipid nanoparticle mRNA delivery system generated from a text prompt
Text to figure in action: a plain-language prompt transformed into a clean labeled scientific figure

Lipid nanoparticle mRNA delivery · text to figure from a prompt

Plain-language promptsJournal-quality outputSeconds, not hours
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Text to figure: generate your scientific figure from a prompt

It is preloaded with an example prompt — edit it or pick one of the ready prompts below, then hit generate to turn text into a figure.

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Describe the figure you need — or add a reference image to transform.

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Starter prompts

Not sure what to type? Start your text to figure here

Click any prompt to load it into the workbench above, then tweak the details so the text to figure result matches your study.

Text to figure, built for prompts and tuned for journals

Text to Figure understands scientific language and outputs an editable, submission-ready scientific figure — not a flat AI picture.

Understanding

Prompt understanding for science

Text to figure parses domain terms — kinases, ViT blocks, Hamiltonians, CONSORT stages — and infers the right panels, arrows, and layout, so a sentence becomes a structured scientific figure instead of a generic illustration.

Domain-awareInfers structureRight panels & arrows
Editable

Editable vectors, not flat pixels

Every text, arrow, and shape stays editable after generation. Relabel a node, recolor a panel, or select a region and regenerate it — without starting over or opening Illustrator.

Selectable textRecolor & relabelRegion regenerate
Styles

Six journal-grade styles

Match the look of Nature, Cell, or IEEE in one click — Scientific, Line, 3D, Editorial, Sketch, or Watercolor — then keep the same style consistent across every figure in your paper.

Nature / Cell / IEEESix stylesConsistent across figures

Text to Figure FAQ

Common questions about text to figure — generating a scientific figure from a text prompt.

Text to figure is LabFig's mode for generating a scientific figure from a plain-language description. You describe the concept — a pathway, workflow, or model — and the text to figure engine produces a clean, publication-ready scientific figure with the panels, labels, and arrows already arranged. For the bigger picture, read our primer on what AI for scientific figures is.

Name the key components and how they connect, then add the figure type and any style preference — e.g. 'a left-to-right workflow', 'a catalytic cycle', or 'Nature style'. A few clear sentences give text to figure the most to work with; you can refine the scientific figure on the canvas, so you don't need to specify every detail up front. The starter prompts above are good templates.

It handles schematic-level chemistry well — reaction cycles, pathways, labeled mechanisms — and renders common notation cleanly. For exact structures or precise equations, generate the layout first and fine-tune the specific labels and symbols on the Vector Canvas before export.

Yes. Edit the prompt and regenerate, or keep the draft and refine it on the vector canvas: move panels, rewrite labels, recolor, or select a single region and regenerate just that part with a new instruction. You can also upscale and polish the figure before export, or start from a PDF with PDF to figure.

Text to figure works across biology, chemistry, materials, medicine, physics, and machine learning, among others — anywhere a concept can be described in words and shown as a scientific figure of a pathway, workflow, model, or apparatus diagram.

Text-to-image generations use a small number of credits each, and new researchers get free credits to start. See the pricing page for current credit costs and plans.

Describe your next scientific figure

Type a sentence into the workbench above and let text to figure return a journal-ready scientific figure in minutes — free while you explore.

No design skills required · Editable vector output

Text to Figure: AI Scientific Figure Generator | LabFig