A Simple One-Liner to Create Professional Looking Matplotlib Plots

Improve the default styling of Matplotlib.

The default styling of matplotlib plots appears pretty basic at times. Here's how you can make them appealing.

To create professional-looking plots for presentations, reports, or scientific papers, try LovelyPlots.

It provides many style sheets to improve their default appearance, by simply adding just one line of code.

To install LovelyPlots, run the following command:

pip install LovelyPlots

Next, import the matplotlib library, and change the style as follows: (You don’t have to import LovelyPlots anywhere)

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.style.use(style) ## change to the style provided by LovelyPlots

Print the list of all possible styles as follows:

plt.style.available

Get Started: LovelyPlots Repository.

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