gautierronan / rgplot

Custom matplotlib style

rgplot

A custom matplotlib style to generate nice-looking matplotlib figures, with just a single line plt.style.use('rgplot').

Example

Reproduce the right-side plot below with the following few lines of Python.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

# use custom style
plt.style.use('rgplot')

# sample data
x = np.linspace(0, 2*np.pi, 100)
y = (np.sin(x) * np.exp(-0.5 * x)).repeat(5).reshape(-1, 5) * np.linspace(0.5, 1.5, 5)

# make plot
plt.plot(x, y)
plt.xlabel("Time")
plt.ylabel("Damped sine")
plt.legend((r"$r = 0$", r"$r = 1$", r"$r = 2$", r"$r = 3$", r"$r = 4$"))
plt.show()

Installation

mkdir -p "$(python -c "import matplotlib; print(matplotlib.get_configdir())")/stylelib"
wget -P "$(python -c "import matplotlib; print(matplotlib.get_configdir())")/stylelib" https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gautierronan/rgplot/main/rgplot.mplstyle

Alternatively, you can download rgplot.mplstyle and place it in your matplotlib style folder. You can find your matplotlib folder by running matplotlib.get_configdir() in a Python environment, with matplotlib imported. By default, the matplotlib folder is ~\.matplotlib\stylelib\.