Merge pull request #6633 from efiring/bigger_suptitle

tacaswell · web-flow · commit 92d72ea78597 · 2016-06-27T15:38:34.000-04:00
STYLE: make default Figure suptitle large, like Axes title.
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/rcsetup.py b/lib/matplotlib/rcsetup.py
@@ -1180,7 +1180,7 @@ def validate_hist_bins(s):
 
     ## figure props
     # figure title
-    'figure.titlesize':   ['medium', validate_fontsize],
+    'figure.titlesize':   ['large', validate_fontsize],
     'figure.titleweight': ['normal', six.text_type],
 
     # figure size in inches: width by height
diff --git a/matplotlibrc.template b/matplotlibrc.template
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ backend      : $TEMPLATE_BACKEND
 
 ### FIGURE
 # See http://matplotlib.org/api/figure_api.html#matplotlib.figure.Figure
-#figure.titlesize : medium     # size of the figure title
+#figure.titlesize : large      # size of the figure title (Figure.suptitle())
 #figure.titleweight : normal   # weight of the figure title
 #figure.figsize   : 6.4, 4.8   # figure size in inches
 #figure.dpi       : 100      # figure dots per inch
