Setup font size and other groups in matplotlib

Posted by Bruce Liu on September 18, 2020

🏷️ Tags: python , matplotlib , font

There are 3 equivalent ways to setup rc file.

matplotlib.pyplot.rc

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.rc('lines', linewidth=2, color='r')

matplotlib.rc

import matplotlib as mpl
mpl.rc('lines', linewidth=2, color='r')

matplotlib.rcParams

import matplotlib as mpl
mpl.rcParams['lines.linewidth'] = 2
mpl.rcParams['lines.color'] = 'r'

setup font size

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
sfs, mfs, lfs = 8, 10, 12
plt.rc('font', size=sfs)
plt.rc('axes', titlesize=sfs, labelsize=mfs)
plt.rc('xtick', labelsize=sfs)
plt.rc('ytick', labelsize=sfs)
plt.rc('legend', fontsize=sfs)
plt.rc('figure', titlesize=lfs)

my custom style

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
sfs, mfs, lfs = 8, 10, 12	#in points
plt.rc('figure', figsize=[7, 4], titlesize=lfs)	#width, height in inches
plt.rc('savefig', dpi=300)
plt.rc('lines', linewidth=1.0, markersize=5.0) #in points
plt.rc('font', family='Times New Roman', size=sfs)
plt.rc('axes', titlesize=sfs, labelsize=mfs)
plt.rc('xtick', labelsize=sfs)
plt.rc('ytick', labelsize=sfs)
plt.rc('legend', fontsize=sfs)
plt.rc('figure', titlesize=lfs)


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