# [Tex/LaTex] Beautiful table samples

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I'm interested in learning about some nice-looking table samples. Colors can make a huge difference, and just providing some color to headers, background, or borders can dramatically change presentation. Any samples you're proud to share?

(BTW here's a sample I like, but unfortunately, not TeX…)

There seems to be a general consensus that booktabs is the way to go, if you want to have a beautifully typeset table. The result is really elegant, but to some it might appear somewhat... Spartan.

Here are a few examples I gathered from the web:

and last but not least, some contributions from our very own site:

And just for completeness' sake, there is the tabu package. I only list it because I subscribe to the opinion that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder'. Keep in mind, though, that I neither like the results in the documentation (and the documentation itself is IMHO an eye-sore) nor do I recommend using it - it's been reported to be buggy.

(EDIT: A little pun: Using tabu is taboo. :))

Finally, a little example (from a homework on Fourier series and transformation):

## Code

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{siunitx}

\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{SSSSSSSS} \toprule
{$m$} & {$\Re\{\underline{\mathfrak{X}}(m)\}$} & {$-\Im\{\underline{\mathfrak{X}}(m)\}$} & {$\mathfrak{X}(m)$} & {$\frac{\mathfrak{X}(m)}{23}$} & {$A_m$} & {$\varphi(m)\ /\ ^{\circ}$} & {$\varphi_m\ /\ ^{\circ}$} \\ \midrule
1  & 16.128 & +8.872 & 16.128 & 1.402 & 1.373 & -146.6 & -137.6 \\
2  & 3.442  & -2.509 & 3.442  & 0.299 & 0.343 & 133.2  & 152.4  \\
3  & 1.826  & -0.363 & 1.826  & 0.159 & 0.119 & 168.5  & -161.1 \\
4  & 0.993  & -0.429 & 0.993  & 0.086 & 0.08  & 25.6   & 90     \\ \midrule
5  & 1.29   & +0.099 & 1.29   & 0.112 & 0.097 & -175.6 & -114.7 \\
6  & 0.483  & -0.183 & 0.483  & 0.042 & 0.063 & 22.3   & 122.5  \\
7  & 0.766  & -0.475 & 0.766  & 0.067 & 0.039 & 141.6  & -122   \\
8  & 0.624  & +0.365 & 0.624  & 0.054 & 0.04  & -35.7  & 90     \\ \midrule
9  & 0.641  & -0.466 & 0.641  & 0.056 & 0.045 & 133.3  & -106.3 \\
10 & 0.45   & +0.421 & 0.45   & 0.039 & 0.034 & -69.4  & 110.9  \\
11 & 0.598  & -0.597 & 0.598  & 0.052 & 0.025 & 92.3   & -109.3 \\ \bottomrule
\end{tabular}

\end{document}