matplotlib can accept a manually defined stylesheet file that is located remotely or locally.

To use BillingeGroup stylesheet, please install this package first

1. You can install from source code in this repo by python setup.py install.

2. Or you can conda install the package from conda-forge.

Then simply run following commands at the begining of you python session whenever you plot.

>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>> from bg_mpl_stylesheet.bg_mpl_stylesheet import bg_mpl_style
>>> plt.style.use(bg_mpl_style)

If you wish to use BillingeGroup stylesheet as the default style of your plots, please follow these steps.

1. Use following commands to figure out which matplotlib config directory on your system:

   >>> import matplotlib
   >>> config_dir = matplotlib.get_configdir()
   

2. Copy and paste bg_mpl_stylesheet file to config_dir found at previous step.

You could also configure any matplotlib rcParameter dynamically in your python session by

plt.rcParams['figure.dpi'] = 180
plt.rcParams['font.size'] = 18
(... and so on)

Now you can start writing the plot codes as normal, such as

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1)
ax.plot(x, y)
fig.savefig('test.pdf')

You can also go to the example folder and run plot.py for the testing. The example plot would be like this: