Suggestion: set style with env var, and allow turning transparency off about itermplot HOT 2 OPEN

def intercept(func: Callable[..., Any], *names: str) -> Callable[..., Any]:
    """
    Intercept function arguments and remove them
    """

    @functools.wraps(func)
    def new_func(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> Any:
        for name in names:
            kwargs.pop(name)
        return func(*args, **kwargs)

    return new_func

if plt.get_backend() == r"module://itermplot":
    fm = plt.get_current_fig_manager()
    canvas = fm.canvas
    # Ideally this should only runs once
    canvas.__class__.print_figure = intercept(
        canvas.__class__.print_figure, "facecolor", "edgecolor"
    )

plt.show()