In the area of graph drawing, researchers have developed a large number of drawing styles appropriate for applications (network layouts, hierarchies, planar drawings, upward drawings, orthogonal drawings, inclusion drawings, trees, ...) and several metrics that evaluate the quality of a drawing (number of crossings, number of edge-bends, drawing height/area/volume, aspect ratio, resolution, edge length, etc). Based on these metrics algorithms that produce such drawings are developed and analyzed.