Pretty style for Jupyter notebooks using Google web-fonts. Apply to all your notebooks using %run magic.

jupyter-style.ipynb

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  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "[Phillip Chiu](mailto:philchiu@ucla.edu) / UCLA / March 28, 2016\n",
    "* * *"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "# IPython Notebook Style File"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "Notebook containing styling CSS for improved readability. This notebook (and these styles) can be imported into other notebooks.\n",
    "The fonts are imported from Google's web fonts."
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 105,
   "metadata": {
    "collapsed": true
   },
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "import IPython.core.display\n",
    "import matplotlib"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## `clean()`"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 120,
   "metadata": {
    "collapsed": true
   },
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "def clean():\n",
    "    # set mpl defaults for nice display\n",
    "#     matplotlib.rcParams['font.size'] = 12\n",
    "#     matplotlib.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = (18, 6)\n",
    "#     matplotlib.rcParams['lines.linewidth'] = 1\n",
    "\n",
    "    return IPython.core.display.HTML(\"\"\"\n",
    "<style type=\"text/css\">\n",
    "@import url('http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans');\n",
    "\n",
    "div.input {\n",
    "width: 105ex; /* about 80 chars + buffer */\n",
    "}\n",
    "\n",
    "div.text_cell {\n",
    "width: 60em; /* instead of 100%, */\n",
    "}\n",
    "\n",
    "div.text_cell_render {\n",
    "font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Computer Modern', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Arial', 'Helvetica', 'Geneva', sans-serif;\n",
    "line-height: 145%; /* added for some line spacing of text. */\n",
    "width: inherit; /* instead of 'inherit' for shorter lines */\n",
    "}\n",
    "\n",
    "/* Set the size of the headers */\n",
    "div.text_cell_render h1 {\n",
    "font-size: 20pt;\n",
    "font-weight: bold;\n",
    "}\n",
    "\n",
    "div.text_cell_render h2 {\n",
    "font-size: 18pt;\n",
    "}\n",
    "\n",
    "div.text_cell_render h3 {\n",
    "font-size: 16pt;\n",
    "}\n",
    "\n",
    "div.text_cell_render h4 {\n",
    "font-size: 14pt;\n",
    "}\n",
    "\n",
    ".CodeMirror {\n",
    "     font-family: Consolas, monospace;\n",
    "}\n",
    "\n",
    ".rendered_html ol {list-style:decimal; margin: 1em 2em;}\n",
    "\n",
    "/* Table of contents */\n",
    "div#toc-wrapper {\n",
    "    max-width: 300px\n",
    "}\n",
    "div#toc {\n",
    "    font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Computer Modern', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Arial', 'Helvetica', 'Geneva', sans-serif;\n",
    "}\n",
    "\n",
    "/* Code */\n",
    "code {\n",
    "    font-family: Consolas, monospace;\n",
    "}\n",
    "</style>\n",
    "\"\"\")"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "# Usage"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "To use these styles, import them into your IPython or Jupyter notebook. For IPython newer than version 2.0:"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "```python\n",
    "%run '/path/to/style.ipynb'\n",
    "```"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "Then, call any of the named styles, e.g.,\n",
    "\n",
    "```\n",
    "clean()\n",
    "```\n",
    "\n",
    "An example cell is shown below. (Copy/paste this into the header of any notebook to apply the `clean()` style defined above)."
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {
    "collapsed": false
   },
   "source": [
    "```python\n",
    "%run '~/Notebooks/style.ipynb'\n",
    "clean()\n",
    "```"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 126,
   "metadata": {
    "collapsed": false
   },
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "## uncomment to test\n",
    "clean()"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "# Examples of headings\n",
    "* * *"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "# Heading 1\n",
    "## Heading 2\n",
    "### Heading 3\n",
    "#### Heading 4\n",
    "##### Heading 5\n",
    "###### Heading 6"
   ]
  }
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