opinionated provides simple, clean stylesheets for plotting with
matplotlib and seaborn.
It’s modeled and named after hrbrthemes in R, by hrbrmstr, which are “Opinionated, typographic-centric ggplot2 themes”. It’s not meant to be an exact clone though, I have made a few different choices.
The main application I had in mind was to increase the quality of plots in colab-environments, where there is a very small range of preinstalled fonts. The package therefore automatically downloads fonts from GoogleFonts. But I think everything should also work on your local machine. Be aware though, that it’s not super well-tested, and might e. g. fail with facets.
pip install opinionated
The package is very simple to use, you just import it and set the style you want:
import opinionated
plt.style.use("opinionated_rc")
Then you do your plotting:
f, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10, 7)) sns.scatterplot(x="bill_length_mm", y="flipper_length_mm", hue='species', data=penguins, s=100, alpha=0.9)
And finally, you can slap on some additional information, using some convenience functions with reasonable defaults. Of course, the usual ways of setting titles, legends, etc. still work.
opinionated.add_legend(title='Species')
opinionated.add_attribution('by Maximilian Noichl')
opinionated.set_title_and_suptitle('Penguins!','They are an excellent type of bird!')
Here’s the result:
This certainly does look better than what the defaults would give you, right? –
You can find more options, stylesheets, etc. in the github-repository!