Chapter 6. A catalog of styles
This chapter covers
- Directives for choosing styles
- Gallery of plotting styles
- Pointers to additional styles
The next few chapters describe the different ways you can control the appearance of a plot: how to make it look just right. In this chapter we’ll discuss the various ways to display data, and in the next chapter we’ll talk about all the other stuff that goes onto a plot, such as labels, borders, arrows, and similar decorations. Because axes and their labels can provide so much relevant information about a plot, they’re given their own chapter (chapter 8). And finally, in chapter 9, we’ll discuss how you can customize the appearance of all plot elements, in case you don’t like the defaults.
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