niceplots

This code can help in producing nice plots! It contains routines that change the default settings of matplotlib to larger fontsizes, better ticks, and using proper TeX rendering.

Contributors

• Laila Linke
• Lukas Hergt

Prerequisites

Using this code requires:

• python3
• matplotlib

The example notebooks also require

• numpy

Installing

Simply go to the root directory of this repository and execute pip install ./

Usage

For usage, it should be as simple as using

import niceplots.utils as nicepl
nicepl.initPlot()

before executing your own matplotlib-based plotting routines. See the folder examples/ for some example notebooks. The notebooks also contain (hopefully) useful information on colorpalettes, figure sizes and accessibility.

License and Attribution

The code is distributed with a GNU GPL 3.0 license, which allows you to do pretty much all you want with it, provided any resulting codes are distributed with the same license. However, if you use the code in a publication, please cite it using or use the bibTeX:

@software{laila_linke_2024_14182015,
  author       = {Laila Linke},
  title        = {llinke1/niceplots: First release},
  month        = nov,
  year         = 2024,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  version      = {v1.0.0},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.14182015},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14182015}
}

Contact

Laila Linke - [[email protected]](mailto: [email protected])