# The Generic Mapping Tools Documentation

Welcome to the GMT Docs! Here you’ll find resources for using GMT and examples of what it can do.

Quick Links

- Common Options

- Projections Specifications

- Default Settings (gmt.conf)

- Colors

- Color Picker

- 35 Postscript Fonts

- Using LaTeX in text

- Built-in CPTs

- Built-in patterns

- Octal Codes of Characters

- Character Escape Sequences

- Pen Syntax

- Fill Syntax

- Grid Format Specifications

- GMT Themes

Getting started

- Installing GMT
- Illustration Gallery
- Animation Gallery
- Tutorials

Reference documentation

- Modules
- Technical Reference
- Datasets
- Modules (Classic Mode)

Resources

- Changelog
- Users Symbol Contributions
- Deprecated GMT Defaults Names
- Switching between Different Versions
- Migrating from an Earlier Version

Development

- Code of Conduct
- Contributors Guide
- Maintainers Guide
- Team Gallery
- reStructuredText Cheatsheet
- Debugging GMT
- GMT C API
- PostScriptLight C API
- GMT Enhancement Proposals