mplstyle

matplotlib plot styles and customizations

Installation

Activate your python environment then do:

git clone https://github.com/anoopkcn/mplstyle.git 
cd mplstyle
pip install -e .

Where -e argument make sure that when you make a change in the package it is reflected in the import without needing to install it again.

Usage

Import library

from mplstyle import styles

Create an object. Note that when you create the object with a specific style template name, this template is applied instead of the matplotlib default

st=styles.Style('academic')

Where academic is a mplstyle template. To revert back to default matplotlib template simply create the object without any arguments

st=styles.Style()

Example code 1:

st=styles.Style('academic')

x = np.linspace(-np.pi, np.pi, 100)

fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10, 4))

with mpl.rc_context({'axes.grid':True}):
    ax1 = fig.add_subplot(1, 2, 1)
    ax1.plot(x, np.sin(x))

with mpl.rc_context():
    ax2 = fig.add_subplot(1, 2, 2)
    ax2.plot(x, np.cos(x),color='tab:green')

with mpl.rc_context():
    panel = ax2.inset_axes([0.35,0.2,0.3,0.3])
    panel.plot(x, np.sin(x), color="tab:orange")

Output:

Example code 2:

st=styles.Style('academic')

c1 = st.cycle('series_color')
c2 = st.cycle('series_linestyle_color')
c3 = st.cycle('series_linestyle_marker_color')

x = np.linspace(0, 2 * np.pi, 50)
offsets = np.linspace(0, 2 * np.pi, 8, endpoint=False)
yy = np.transpose([np.sin(x + phi) for phi in offsets])

fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10, 4))
with mpl.rc_context({'axes.prop_cycle':c1}):
    ax1 = fig.add_subplot(3, 1, 1)
    ax1.plot(yy)
    ax1.set_title('changing_colors')
with mpl.rc_context({'axes.prop_cycle':c2}):
    ax2 = fig.add_subplot(3, 1, 2)
    ax2.plot(yy)
    ax2.set_title('changing linestyle and color')
with mpl.rc_context({'axes.prop_cycle':c3}):
    ax3 = fig.add_subplot(3, 1, 3)
    ax3.plot(yy)
    ax3.set_title('changing linestyle, color and marker')

Output:

Example code 3:

c4 = st.cycle('series_linestyle')
c5 = st.cycle('series_marker_color')

fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10, 4))
with mpl.rc_context({'axes.prop_cycle':c4}):
    ax1 = fig.add_subplot(2, 1, 1)
    ax1.plot(yy)
    ax1.set_title('changing_linestyle')
with mpl.rc_context({'axes.prop_cycle':c5}):
    ax2 = fig.add_subplot(2, 1, 2)
    ax2.plot(yy)
    ax2.set_title('changing marker and color')

Output:

Add more styles

You can add more styles in the src/mplstyle/templates.py file

More cycles can be added in src/mplstyle/cycles.py