Bill Binko from ATMakers.org has taken on the noble task of making accurate color pinout diagrams for some Adafruit microcontroller boards. He walks in the footsteps of pighxxx and others who first brought this art to makers.
The work is done in Inkscape and is automated via a template available here.
See the video below for an explanation.
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If you really want to automate it, and not mess around with Inkscape. Try out https://github.com/stevenj/GenPinoutSVG
Totally automated data driven pinout generator in pure python. The advantage is, you can easily tweak pin labels in a text file and regenerate. You don’t have to keep redrawing and aligning and wishing you were coding rather than making pinout diagrams.