Matplotlib is a powerful visualization package for Python. It is very customizable, thanks to this it is widly used in commercial and in academic use cases. In this article, I will show you 9 different ways how to set colors in Matplotlib plots. All parts of the plot can be customized with a new color. You can set colors for axes, labels, background, title. However, not every data scientist is a graphic designer that can compose nice looking colors in a single plot, so I can show you how to use predefined Matplotlib styles to get attractive plots.

The Matplotlib is a popular plotting library for Python. It can be used in Python scripts and Jupyter Notebooks. The plot can be displayed in a separate window or a notebook. What if you would like to save the plot to a file? In this article, I will show you how to save the Matplotlib plot into a file. It can be done by using 14 different formats.

You’ve just created an amazing plot in Python with Matplotlib but would like to change figure size. I will show you three different approaches to changing figure size in Matplotlib. All code samples from article can be used in Python script or Jupyter Notebook (Jupyter Lab).