.. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note Click :ref:`here ` to download the full example code .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_gallery_misc_customize_rc.py: ============ Customize Rc ============ I'm not trying to make a good looking figure here, but just to show some examples of customizing rc params on the fly If you like to work interactively, and need to create different sets of defaults for figures (e.g., one set of defaults for publication, one set for interactive exploration), you may want to define some functions in a custom module that set the defaults, e.g.,:: def set_pub(): rc('font', weight='bold') # bold fonts are easier to see rc('tick', labelsize=15) # tick labels bigger rc('lines', lw=1, color='k') # thicker black lines rc('grid', c='0.5', ls='-', lw=0.5) # solid gray grid lines rc('savefig', dpi=300) # higher res outputs Then as you are working interactively, you just need to do:: >>> set_pub() >>> subplot(111) >>> plot([1,2,3]) >>> savefig('myfig') >>> rcdefaults() # restore the defaults .. image:: /gallery/misc/images/sphx_glr_customize_rc_001.png :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. code-block:: python import matplotlib.pyplot as plt plt.subplot(311) plt.plot([1, 2, 3]) # the axes attributes need to be set before the call to subplot plt.rc('font', weight='bold') plt.rc('xtick.major', size=5, pad=7) plt.rc('xtick', labelsize=15) # using aliases for color, linestyle and linewidth; gray, solid, thick plt.rc('grid', c='0.5', ls='-', lw=5) plt.rc('lines', lw=2, color='g') plt.subplot(312) plt.plot([1, 2, 3]) plt.grid(True) plt.rcdefaults() plt.subplot(313) plt.plot([1, 2, 3]) plt.grid(True) plt.show() .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_misc_customize_rc.py: .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer :class: sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Python source code: customize_rc.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: customize_rc.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_