beautiful - Matplotlib plot settings (my fav)

ranaplotsettings.py

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.rcParams.update({'text.usetex': False,
                     'lines.linewidth': 4,
                     'font.family': 'serif',
                     'font.serif': 'Palatino',
                     'font.size': 22,
                     'xtick.direction': 'in',
                     'ytick.direction': 'in',
                     'xtick.labelsize': 'medium',
                     'ytick.labelsize': 'medium',
                     'axes.labelsize': 'medium',
                     'axes.titlesize': 'medium',
                     'axes.grid.axis': 'both',
                     'axes.grid.which': 'both',
                     'axes.grid': True,
                     'grid.color': 'xkcd:beige',
                     'grid.alpha': 0.253,
                     'lines.markersize': 12,
                     'legend.borderpad': 0.2,
                     'legend.fancybox': True,
                     'legend.fontsize': 'small',
                     'legend.framealpha': 0.8,
                     'legend.handletextpad': 0.5,
                     'legend.labelspacing': 0.33,
                     'legend.loc': 'best',
                     'figure.figsize': ((12, 8)),
                     'savefig.dpi': 140,
                     'savefig.bbox': 'tight',
                     'pdf.compression': 9})