Question

I’m using Python to plot a couple of graphs and I’m trying to change the formatting and essentially ‘brand’ the graph. I’ve managed to change most things using pylab.rcParams[…], but I can’t work out how to change the colour of the markers on the axes and the border around the legend. Any help would be much appreciated. The line below is an example of the type of code I’ve been using to edit other parts. Basically just lines taken from matplotlibrc, but I can’t find them to change everything I want.

pylab.rcParams[axes.labelcolor' = '#031F73'

Answer 1

If you just want to use rcParams, the proper parameters are xticks.color and yticks.color. I can’t seem to find a key for the legend frame color. You can set that (along with the tick colors) programmatically though.

import pylab

pylab.plot([1,2,3],[4,5,6], label ='test')
lg = pylab.legend()
lg.get_frame().set_edgecolor('blue')
ax = pylab.axes()

for line in ax.yaxis.get_ticklines():
    line.set_color('blue')
for line in ax.xaxis.get_ticklines():
    line.set_color('blue')

for label in ax.yaxis.get_ticklabels():
    label.set_color('blue')
for label in ax.xaxis.get_ticklabels():
    label.set_color('blue')

pylab.show()