Publication ready pyplot theme (thanks to @aeturrell)

gistfile1.txt

plot_settings = {'ytick.labelsize': 16,
                 'xtick.labelsize': 16,
                 'font.size': 22,
                 'figure.figsize': (10, 5),
                 'axes.titlesize': 22,
                 'axes.labelsize': 18,
                 'lines.linewidth': 2,
                 'lines.markersize': 3,
                 'legend.fontsize': 11,
                 'mathtext.fontset': 'stix',
                 'font.family': 'STIXGeneral'}
plt.style.use(plot_settings) # apply defined settings to current pyplot style