init_plotting.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Created on Mon Aug 15 02:29:55 2016

@author: tharshi
"""
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import palettable

def init_plotting(): 
    
    plt.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = (4, 3)
    plt.rcParams['font.size'] = 10
    plt.rcParams['font.family'] = 'Serif'
    plt.rcParams['font.serif'] = 'Computer Modern'
    plt.rcParams['axes.labelsize'] = plt.rcParams['font.size']
    plt.rcParams['axes.titlesize'] = plt.rcParams['font.size']
    plt.rcParams['legend.fontsize'] = plt.rcParams['font.size']
    plt.rcParams['axes.linewidth'] = 0.75
    plt.rcParams['xtick.labelsize'] = plt.rcParams['font.size']
    plt.rcParams['ytick.labelsize'] = plt.rcParams['font.size']
    plt.rcParams['savefig.dpi'] = 300
    plt.rcParams['xtick.major.size'] = 3
    plt.rcParams['xtick.minor.size'] = 3
    plt.rcParams['xtick.major.width'] = 1
    plt.rcParams['xtick.minor.width'] = 1
    plt.rcParams['ytick.major.size'] = 3
    plt.rcParams['ytick.minor.size'] = 3
    plt.rcParams['ytick.major.width'] = 1
    plt.rcParams['ytick.minor.width'] = 1
    plt.rcParams['legend.frameon'] = False
    plt.rcParams['legend.loc'] = 'upper left'
    plt.rcParams['lines.linewidth'] = 1.5

    plt.gca().spines['right'].set_color('none')
    plt.gca().spines['top'].set_color('none')
    plt.gca().xaxis.set_ticks_position('bottom')
    plt.gca().yaxis.set_ticks_position('left')
    
    cmap = palettable.colorbrewer.qualitative.Set2_8.mpl_colors
    plt.rcParams['axes.color_cycle'] = cmap