st3107 / mpl-stylesheets

Matplotlib style sheets

BillingeGroup mpl-stylesheets

• matplotlib can accept stylesheet file that is located remotely or locally.

• To use BillingeGroup stylesheet remotely, simply run following commands at the begining of you python session.

  >>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  >>> path = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Billingegroup/mpl-stylesheets/master/bg_style'
  >>> plt.style.use(path)
  

• If you prefer to use BillingeGroup stylesheet locally, please follow these steps.

  1. Fork and clone the repo to your local computer

  2. replace the variable path into the stylesheet file on your local system and run the commands as above.

• If you wish to use BillingeGroup stylesheet as the default style of your plots, please follow these steps.

  1. Use following commands to figure out which matplotlib config directory on your system:

     >>> import matplotlib
     >>> config_dir = matplotlib.get_configdir()
     

  2. Copy and paste bg_style file to config_dir found at previous step.

• You could also configure any matplotlib rcParameter dynamically in your python session by

  plt.rcParams['figure.dpi'] = 180
  plt.rcParams['font.size'] = 18
  (... and so on)
  

• Now you can start writing the plot codes as normal, such as

  fig = plt.figure()
  ax = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1)
  ax.plot(x, y)
  fig.savefig('test.pdf')
  

• You can also go to the example folder and run plot.py

• For full reference, please see matplotlib doc: https://matplotlib.org/users/dflt_style_changes.html