xkcd plots with background color have white outlines for text and axes spines

[ilivni]

Hi - I was messing butchering a plot using a solarized color theme (similar to ggplot2) and found that the text and the axes spines had white padding around them. Example of chart and code below: (if this is incomplete or incorrect please let me know)

Chart:

Code:

base3='#fdf6e3'

with plt.xkcd():
      some plot data ...
      plt.title(title, color=magenta, size=14)
      plt.xticks(rotation=45)
      ax.spines['bottom'].set_color(base3)
      ax.spines['top'].set_color(base3)
      ax.spines['left'].set_color(base3)
      ax.spines['right'].set_color(base3)
      ax.grid(False)

[ilivni]

Update: I tried doing a work around by saving the plot to a .png with transparent=True .

with plt.xkcd():
      ... make a line plot
      ... Solarize - **No background**
      ... Annotate
      ... rotate xticks 45 degrees
      ....plt.savefig('some file Path' +'CumSum.png', transparent=True)

This is what I get when the .png is posted to the website with a Solarized theme.

The same behaviour as when a background is applied using matplolib.

Let me know if this helps and where I can take a look to maybe "fix"

[pelson]

The white outline occurs on the line:

matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/pyplot.py

Line 307 in 300ee75

patheffects.withStroke(linewidth=4, foreground="w")]

If you want to change the outline, simply change your rcParams after enabling xkcd to something like:

from matplotlib import patheffects
rcParams['path.effects'] = [patheffects.withStroke(linewidth=4, foreground=magneta)]

[ilivni]

Perfect. Yes. Actually I just set linewidth=0

Thanks and sorry for opening a nonbug