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Customizing Matplotlib with style sheets and rcParams

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Tips for customizing the properties and default styles of Matplotlib.

There are three ways to customize Matplotlib:

1. :ref:`Setting rcParams at runtime<customizing-with-dynamic-rc-settings>`.

2. :ref:`Using style sheets<customizing-with-style-sheets>`.

3. :ref:`Changing your matplotlibrc file<customizing-with-matplotlibrc-files>`.

Setting rcParams at runtime takes precedence over style sheets, style

sheets take precedence over :file:`matplotlibrc` files.

.. _customizing-with-dynamic-rc-settings:

Runtime rc settings

===================

You can dynamically change the default rc (runtime configuration)

settings in a python script or interactively from the python shell. All

rc settings are stored in a dictionary-like variable called

:data:`matplotlib.rcParams`, which is global to the matplotlib package.

See `matplotlib.rcParams` for a full list of configurable rcParams.

rcParams can be modified directly, for example:

"""

import numpy as np

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

import matplotlib as mpl

from cycler import cycler

mpl.rcParams['lines.linewidth'] = 2

mpl.rcParams['lines.linestyle'] = '--'

data = np.random.randn(50)

plt.plot(data)

###############################################################################

# Note, that in order to change the usual `~.Axes.plot` color you have to

# change the *prop_cycle* property of *axes*:

mpl.rcParams['axes.prop_cycle'] = cycler(color=['r', 'g', 'b', 'y'])

plt.plot(data) # first color is red

###############################################################################

# Matplotlib also provides a couple of convenience functions for modifying rc

# settings. `matplotlib.rc` can be used to modify multiple

# settings in a single group at once, using keyword arguments:

mpl.rc('lines', linewidth=4, linestyle='-.')

plt.plot(data)

###############################################################################

# Temporary rc settings

# ---------------------

#

# The :data:`matplotlib.rcParams` object can also be changed temporarily using

# the `matplotlib.rc_context` context manager:

with mpl.rc_context({'lines.linewidth': 2, 'lines.linestyle': ':'}):

plt.plot(data)

###############################################################################

# `matplotlib.rc_context` can also be used as a decorator to modify the

# defaults within a function:

@mpl.rc_context({'lines.linewidth': 3, 'lines.linestyle': '-'})

def plotting_function():

plt.plot(data)

plotting_function()

###############################################################################

# `matplotlib.rcdefaults` will restore the standard Matplotlib

# default settings.

#

# There is some degree of validation when setting the values of rcParams, see

# :mod:`matplotlib.rcsetup` for details.

###############################################################################

# .. _customizing-with-style-sheets:

#

# Using style sheets

# ==================

#

# Another way to change the visual appearance of plots is to set the

# rcParams in a so-called style sheet and import that style sheet with

# `matplotlib.style.use`. In this way you can switch easily between

# different styles by simply changing the imported style sheet. A style

# sheets looks the same as a :ref:`matplotlibrc<matplotlibrc-sample>`

# file, but in a style sheet you can only set rcParams that are related

# to the actual style of a plot. Other rcParams, like *backend*, will be

# ignored. :file:`matplotlibrc` files support all rcParams. The

# rationale behind this is to make style sheets portable between

# different machines without having to worry about dependencies which

# might or might not be installed on another machine. For a full list of

# rcParams see `matplotlib.rcParams`. For a list of rcParams that are

# ignored in style sheets see `matplotlib.style.use`.

#

# There are a number of pre-defined styles :doc:`provided by Matplotlib

# </gallery/style_sheets/style_sheets_reference>`. For

# example, there's a pre-defined style called "ggplot", which emulates the

# aesthetics of ggplot_ (a popular plotting package for R_). To use this

# style, add:

plt.style.use('ggplot')

###############################################################################

# To list all available styles, use:

print(plt.style.available)

###############################################################################

# Defining your own style

# -----------------------

#

# You can create custom styles and use them by calling `.style.use` with

# the path or URL to the style sheet.

#

# For example, you might want to create

# ``./images/presentation.mplstyle`` with the following::

#

# axes.titlesize : 24

# axes.labelsize : 20

# lines.linewidth : 3

# lines.markersize : 10

# xtick.labelsize : 16

# ytick.labelsize : 16

#

# Then, when you want to adapt a plot designed for a paper to one that looks

# good in a presentation, you can just add::

#

# >>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# >>> plt.style.use('./images/presentation.mplstyle')

#

# Alternatively, you can make your style known to Matplotlib by placing

# your ``<style-name>.mplstyle`` file into ``mpl_configdir/stylelib``. You

# can then load your custom style sheet with a call to

# ``style.use(<style-name>)``. By default ``mpl_configdir`` should be

# ``~/.config/matplotlib``, but you can check where yours is with

# `matplotlib.get_configdir()`; you may need to create this directory. You

# also can change the directory where Matplotlib looks for the stylelib/

# folder by setting the :envvar:`MPLCONFIGDIR` environment variable, see

# :ref:`locating-matplotlib-config-dir`.

#

# Note that a custom style sheet in ``mpl_configdir/stylelib`` will override a

# style sheet defined by Matplotlib if the styles have the same name.

#

# Once your ``<style-name>.mplstyle`` file is in the appropriate

# ``mpl_configdir`` you can specify your style with::

#

# >>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# >>> plt.style.use(<style-name>)

#

#

# Composing styles

# ----------------

#

# Style sheets are designed to be composed together. So you can have a style

# sheet that customizes colors and a separate style sheet that alters element

# sizes for presentations. These styles can easily be combined by passing

# a list of styles::

#

# >>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# >>> plt.style.use(['dark_background', 'presentation'])

#

# Note that styles further to the right will overwrite values that are already

# defined by styles on the left.

#

#

# Temporary styling

# -----------------

#

# If you only want to use a style for a specific block of code but don't want

# to change the global styling, the style package provides a context manager

# for limiting your changes to a specific scope. To isolate your styling

# changes, you can write something like the following:

with plt.style.context('dark_background'):

plt.plot(np.sin(np.linspace(0, 2 * np.pi)), 'r-o')

plt.show()

###############################################################################

# .. _customizing-with-matplotlibrc-files:

#

# The :file:`matplotlibrc` file

# =============================

#

# Matplotlib uses :file:`matplotlibrc` configuration files to customize all

# kinds of properties, which we call 'rc settings' or 'rc parameters'. You can

# control the defaults of almost every property in Matplotlib: figure size and

# DPI, line width, color and style, axes, axis and grid properties, text and

# font properties and so on. The :file:`matplotlibrc` is read at startup to

# configure Matplotlib. Matplotlib looks for :file:`matplotlibrc` in four

# locations, in the following order:

#

# 1. :file:`matplotlibrc` in the current working directory, usually used for

# specific customizations that you do not want to apply elsewhere.

#

# 2. :file:`$MATPLOTLIBRC` if it is a file, else

# :file:`$MATPLOTLIBRC/matplotlibrc`.

#

# 3. It next looks in a user-specific place, depending on your platform:

#

# - On Linux and FreeBSD, it looks in

# :file:`.config/matplotlib/matplotlibrc` (or

# :file:`$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/matplotlib/matplotlibrc`) if you've customized

# your environment.

#

# - On other platforms, it looks in :file:`.matplotlib/matplotlibrc`.

#

# See :ref:`locating-matplotlib-config-dir`.

#

# 4. :file:`{INSTALL}/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc`, where

# :file:`{INSTALL}` is something like

# :file:`/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages` on Linux, and maybe

# :file:`C:\\Python37\\Lib\\site-packages` on Windows. Every time you

# install matplotlib, this file will be overwritten, so if you want

# your customizations to be saved, please move this file to your

# user-specific matplotlib directory.

#

# Once a :file:`matplotlibrc` file has been found, it will *not* search

# any of the other paths. When a

# :ref:`style sheet<customizing-with-style-sheets>` is given with

# ``style.use('<path>/<style-name>.mplstyle')``, settings specified in

# the style sheet take precedence over settings in the

# :file:`matplotlibrc` file.

#

# To display where the currently active :file:`matplotlibrc` file was

# loaded from, one can do the following::

#

# >>> import matplotlib

# >>> matplotlib.matplotlib_fname()

# '/home/foo/.config/matplotlib/matplotlibrc'

#

# See below for a sample :ref:`matplotlibrc file<matplotlibrc-sample>`

# and see `matplotlib.rcParams` for a full list of configurable rcParams.

#

# .. _matplotlibrc-sample:

#

# The default :file:`matplotlibrc` file

# -------------------------------------

#

# .. literalinclude:: ../../../lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc

#

#

# .. _ggplot: https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/

# .. _R: https://www.r-project.org/