How to Set Up rcParams in Matplotlib

A simple guide to setting default plotting parameters in matplotlib’s rcParam

Matt Crooks
7 min readSep 28, 2022

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Matplotlib gets a lot of stick I think it’s unfair. I’ll admit that if you just run plt.plot() then you’ll get something quite ugly but it is, in my view, the best plotting package in python and a largely unavoidable one.

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