Quick start guide A simple example Parts of a Figure Types of inputs to plotting functions Coding styles Styling Artists Labelling plots Axis scales and ticks Color mapped data Working with multiple Figures and Axes More reading A simple example Parts of a Figure Types of inputs to plotting functions Styling Artists Labelling plots Axis scales and ticks Color mapped data Working with multiple Figures and Axes Frequently Asked Questions Figures and backends Introduction to figures Output backends Matplotlib Application Interfaces (APIs) Interacting with figures Interactive figures and asynchronous programming Event handling Writing a backend -- the pyplot interface Introduction to figures Output backends Matplotlib Application Interfaces (APIs) Interacting with figures Interactive figures and asynchronous programming Writing a backend -- the pyplot interface Axes and subplots Introduction to Axes (or Subplots) Arranging multiple Axes in a Figure Placing colorbars Axis autoscaling Axis scales Axis ticks Plotting dates and strings Legends Subplot mosaic Constrained layout guide Tight layout guide (mildly discouraged) Introduction to Axes (or Subplots) Arranging multiple Axes in a Figure Placing colorbars Axis autoscaling Plotting dates and strings Constrained layout guide Tight layout guide (mildly discouraged) Artists Introduction to Artists Automated color cycle Optimizing Artists for performance Paths Path effects guide Understanding the extent keyword argument of imshow Transformations Tutorial Introduction to Artists Automated color cycle

Optimizing Artists for performance Path effects guide Understanding the extent keyword argument of imshow Transformations Tutorial Matplotlib configuration - rcParams Customizing Matplotlib with style sheets and rcParams Runtime rc settings Using style sheets The matplotlibrc file Runtime rc settings Using style sheets The matplotlibrc file Colors Customized Colorbars Tutorial Creating Colormaps in Matplotlib Colormap normalization Choosing Colormaps in Matplotlib Specifying colors Customized Colorbars Tutorial Creating Colormaps in Matplotlib Colormap normalization Choosing Colormaps in Matplotlib Specifying colors Text Annotations Fonts in Matplotlib Writing mathematical expressions Text rendering with XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX via the pgf backend Text in Matplotlib Text properties and layout Default Font Text rendering with LaTeX Fonts in Matplotlib Writing mathematical expressions Text rendering with XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX via the pgf backend Text in Matplotlib Text properties and layout Text rendering with LaTeX Animations using Matplotlib Animations using Matplotlib Faster rendering by using blitting Animations using Matplotlib Faster rendering by using blitting User Toolkits The axisartist toolkit The axes_grid1 toolkit The mplot3d toolkit The axisartist toolkit The axes_grid1 toolkit The mplot3d toolkit