This module is to create a default plot style environment for scientific publications.

VERSION: 0.0.1

git clone https://github.com/ejcjason/eStyle.git
cd eStyle
python ./install.sh install

from eStyle import *

When it is imported, it imports numpy as np, matplotlib.pyplot as plt automatically and changes the plot style immediately.

The setting is :

plt.rc('font', family="Arial")
params = {
    'axes.labelsize': 14,
    'font.size': 12,
    'xtick.direction': 'in',
    'ytick.direction': 'in',
    'text.usetex': False,
    'mathtext.fontset': 'custom',
    'mathtext.rm': 'Arial',
    'mathtext.it': 'Arial:italic',
    'mathtext.bf': 'Arial:bold',
    'lines.linewidth': 1.5
}

and you can modify it as you like.

To set default size of legends and labels, add these lines to params in eStyle.py before installing this module.

'legend.fontsize': 12,
'xtick.labelsize': 12,
'ytick.labelsize': 12,

setXminor(ax,nt)

setYminor(ax,nt)

setNminor(ax,nbx=5,nby=5)

nt: number of ticks, default = 5

setXmajor(ax,nb)

setYmajor(ax,nb)

setNmajor(ax,nbx=5,nby=5)

nb: number of tick bins, default = 5