Fig Axes Customize Simple

Customize the background, labels and ticks of a simple plot.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

pyplot.figure creates a matplotlib.figure.Figure instance.

fig = plt.figure()
rect = fig.patch  # a rectangle instance
rect.set_facecolor('lightgoldenrodyellow')

ax1 = fig.add_axes([0.1, 0.3, 0.4, 0.4])
rect = ax1.patch
rect.set_facecolor('lightslategray')


for label in ax1.xaxis.get_ticklabels():
    # label is a Text instance
    label.set_color('tab:red')
    label.set_rotation(45)
    label.set_fontsize(16)

for line in ax1.yaxis.get_ticklines():
    # line is a Line2D instance
    line.set_color('tab:green')
    line.set_markersize(25)
    line.set_markeredgewidth(3)

plt.show()

References

The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown in this example:

• matplotlib.axis.Axis.get_ticklabels
• matplotlib.axis.Axis.get_ticklines
• matplotlib.text.Text.set_rotation
• matplotlib.text.Text.set_fontsize
• matplotlib.text.Text.set_color
• matplotlib.lines.Line2D
• matplotlib.lines.Line2D.set_color
• matplotlib.lines.Line2D.set_markersize
• matplotlib.lines.Line2D.set_markeredgewidth
• matplotlib.patches.Patch.set_facecolor