OverviewΒΆ
mplstyle is a Python package, which allows matplotlib users to simplify the process of improving plots quality. Quite often font, size, legend, colors and other settings have to be changed to make graphs look better. Such changes can be saved and stored in your own plot style, which can automatically change the way of making plots by importing it as a usual Python toolbox. In other words, with mplstyle you can set plotting settings once and use your own configurations.
The core of mplstyle is a PLTbase class containing a list of functions, which change the initial settings of matplotlib. Figure 1: Plotting changes by applying PLTbase class Figure 1 illustrates these changes by plotting several trigonometric functions with and without the PLTbase.
Figure 1: Plotting changes by applying PLTbase class
Three settings can be changed: color style, color order style and plt style. When using PLTbase each setting will be applied to become the new default setting. Figure 2 illustrates the above-mentioned PLTbase structure.
Figure 2: PLTbase class structure
In addition to the PLTbase there are five more classes: PLTdatabay, PLTdynamis, PLTenfo, PLTewk and PLTtz. Each class inherits the functionality of the PLTbase class and contains different styles of reconfiguring the initial settings. The structure of one of these classes is presented in Figure 3.
Figure 3: PLTtz class structure
As can be seen PLTtz preserves PLTbase styles and contains additionals styles. The remaining classes (Figure 3 in red) have the same structure, but with their own additional styles.