# Julia Plots circular marker with no fill (transparent inside)

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-plots-circular-marker-with-no-fill-transparent-inside/104246>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** plots\
**Created:** [September 26, 2023, 12:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-plots-circular-marker-with-no-fill-transparent-inside/104246 "2023-09-26T00:19:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![sijo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@sijo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sijo)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2023, 7:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-plots-circular-marker-with-no-fill-transparent-inside/104246/4 "2023-09-26T07:12:27Z")

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It’s not supported by the default GR backend, see [past discussion](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-empty-markers-plots-gr-backend/20069/12) with workarounds and GitHub [issue](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl/issues/1469).

The easiest is to use another Plots.jl backend if that works for you. Or if you want to try Makie you can do something like `scatter(data, color=:transparent, strokecolor=:blue, strokewidth=2)`.

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