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Setting plot background in Seaborn
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schedule Mar 10, 2022
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To set the plot background in Seaborn:
import seaborn as snssns.set(rc={'axes.facecolor':'yellow', 'figure.facecolor':'red'})fig, ax = plt.subplots()
This gives us the following plot:
Using Hex and RGB
To specify colors using HEX and RGB:
import seaborn as sns# #0000FF is bluesns.set(rc={'axes.facecolor':'#0000FF', 'figure.facecolor':(1.0,0.47,0.42,1)})fig, ax = plt.subplots()
Note that the RGB is scaled to a floating value from 0 to 1.
This gives us the following:
Setting transparent background
To set a transparent background you could use the RGBA tuple (0,0,0,0), where the last 0 represents an opacity of 0.
import seaborn as snssns.set(rc={'axes.facecolor':'#0000FF', 'figure.facecolor':(0,0,0,0)})fig, ax = plt.subplots()
This gives us the following:
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