SpiffyPlots

A collection of matplotlib style sheets and plotting tools for publication-ready figures.

• Free software: GPL-3 license
• Documentation: https://spiffyplots.readthedocs.io.

Simple style example:

Installation

Install the latest release:

pip install spiffyplots

or install the latest commit directly from GitHub:

pip install git+https://github.com/JRBCH/spiffyplots.git

Features

• Matplotlib style sheets

  • General style sheets for quick and beautiful out-of-the-box plotting
  • Color style sheets for Paul Tol's color schemes

• Multi-panel figures

  • Easy and flexible wrapper of matplotlib's GridSpec
  • Automatic labelling of sub-panels
  • Support for custom panel arrangements and labels

Future Plans

• Journal-specific style sheets
• Automatic optimization of figure size for multipanel figures
• color module for quick access to colors and cmaps
• panel wrapper class for matplotlib axes objects with custom plotting methods for often used plots.

Credits

• This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

• The idea for easy-to-use and pypi-deployable matplotlib stylesheets stems from John Garrett's SciencePlots package.