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Fig Axes Customize Simple#
Customize the background, labels and ticks of a simple plot.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
pyplot.figure
creates a matplotlib.figure.Figure
instance.
fig = plt.figure()
rect = fig.patch # a rectangle instance
rect.set_facecolor('lightgoldenrodyellow')
ax1 = fig.add_axes([0.1, 0.3, 0.4, 0.4])
rect = ax1.patch
rect.set_facecolor('lightslategray')
ax1.tick_params(axis='x', labelcolor='tab:red', labelrotation=45, labelsize=16)
ax1.tick_params(axis='y', color='tab:green', size=25, width=3)
plt.show()
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