changing the color of just one bar in a bar chart; white gap appearing

[Stephen Porter]

I've followed the instructions here: https://www.statalist.org/forums/for...gory-bar-chart.

But I end up with the single differently colored bar moved slightly to the right, creating a white gap in the chart to the left of that bar. I've attached a pic.

Any ideas as to what is happening?

import delimited using "$wake/Muni-NonMuni_LandArea2023.csv", clear

drop if county == "North Carolina"

destring totallandarea, replace

sort totallandarea
gen x = _n

separate totallandarea, by(county == "Wake")

graph bar totallandarea0 totallandarea1, over(x, lab(nolab)) b1title("North Carolina counties") ///
bar(1, color(red)) bar(2, color(black)) ytitle("Size in square miles") legend(off)

[Nick Cox]

You're missing the nofill option. See https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf...867X1101100310

[Stephen Porter]

Thanks, Nick! That was driving me crazy.