Mastering Matplotlib 2.x

Creating your own styles

A question arises: can we actually make our own style sheet? The answer to that, of course, is yes. The first thing you need to know is where to put these style sheets.

So, when we run mpl.get_configdir, you can see we get a directory where the Matplotlib configuration options are stored and here we can actually place new style sheets:

# Where do we put out style sheets?mpl.get_configdir()

We will thus generate our simple plot again by using a classic style sheet. Let's build a new style sheet; we will build something simple that will change just a single attribute. To build a new style sheet, we will follow these steps:

1. We will make a directory called stylelib—this will be where style files are actually stored, ...