Styles

We've created a set of default plotting styles that can be called via artlo.plot.set_style(), which updates the matplotlib.rcParams dictionary. You can find the relevant code documentation here.

Important artlo must be imported before matplotlib for these functions to work - this is stupd and annoying, and driven by the order in which different environment variables are set. To get around this, you can directly import important matplotlib classes from artlo:

import artlo
from artlo import mpl # matplotlib module
from artlo import plt # matplotlib.pyplot

artlo.plot.set_style('salo-dark')
plt.plot(...)

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salo-dark

artlo.plot.set_style('salo-dark')

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salo-light

artlo.plot.set_style('salo-light')

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cfo-light

artlo.plot.set_style('cfo-light')

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For reference, here is the default matplotlib plotting style:

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Code documentation

Lists the available plotting styles.

Returns:

Name	Type	Description
styles		list of style names to pass to plot.set_style()

Source code in artlo/plot.py

def get_styles():
    """Lists the available plotting styles.

    Args:
        None.

    Returns:
        styles: list of style names to pass to `plot.set_style()`
    """

    styles = mpl.style.available

    return styles

Sets a series of plot style parameters.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Default
style		str of the style name to use. from plot.get_styles()	required

Returns:

Type	Description
	None. Updates matplotlib.rcParams

Source code in artlo/plot.py

def set_style(style):
    """Sets a series of plot style parameters.

    Args:
        style: str of the style name to use. from `plot.get_styles()`

    Returns:
        None. Updates matplotlib.rcParams
    """

    mpl.style.use(style)