.. only:: html .. 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_color_color_cycler.py: =================== Styling with cycler =================== Demo of custom property-cycle settings to control colors and other style properties for multi-line plots. This example demonstrates two different APIs: 1. Setting the default :doc:`rc parameter` specifying the property cycle. This affects all subsequent axes (but not axes already created). 2. Setting the property cycle for a single pair of axes. .. code-block:: default from cycler import cycler import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt x = np.linspace(0, 2 * np.pi) offsets = np.linspace(0, 2*np.pi, 4, endpoint=False) # Create array with shifted-sine curve along each column yy = np.transpose([np.sin(x + phi) for phi in offsets]) # 1. Setting prop cycle on default rc parameter plt.rc('lines', linewidth=4) plt.rc('axes', prop_cycle=(cycler(color=['r', 'g', 'b', 'y']) + cycler(linestyle=['-', '--', ':', '-.']))) fig, (ax0, ax1) = plt.subplots(nrows=2, constrained_layout=True) ax0.plot(yy) ax0.set_title('Set default color cycle to rgby') # 2. Define prop cycle for single set of axes # For the most general use-case, you can provide a cycler to # `.set_prop_cycle`. # Here, we use the convenient shortcut that we can alternatively pass # one or more properties as keyword arguments. This creates and sets # a cycler iterating simultaneously over all properties. ax1.set_prop_cycle(color=['c', 'm', 'y', 'k'], lw=[1, 2, 3, 4]) ax1.plot(yy) ax1.set_title('Set axes color cycle to cmyk') plt.show() .. image:: /gallery/color/images/sphx_glr_color_cycler_001.png :class: sphx-glr-single-img ------------ References """""""""" The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown in this example: .. code-block:: default import matplotlib matplotlib.axes.Axes.plot matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_prop_cycle .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-script-out Out: .. code-block:: none .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_color_color_cycler.py: .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer :class: sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python :download:`Download Python source code: color_cycler.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: color_cycler.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_