seaborn.set_context¶

seaborn.set_context(context=None, font_scale=1, rc=None)¶

Set the plotting context parameters.

This affects things like the size of the labels, lines, and other elements of the plot, but not the overall style. The base context is “notebook”, and the other contexts are “paper”, “talk”, and “poster”, which are version of the notebook parameters scaled by .8, 1.3, and 1.6, respectively.

Parameters

contextdict, None, or one of {paper, notebook, talk, poster}

A dictionary of parameters or the name of a preconfigured set.

font_scalefloat, optional

Separate scaling factor to independently scale the size of the font elements.

rcdict, optional

Parameter mappings to override the values in the preset seaborn context dictionaries. This only updates parameters that are considered part of the context definition.

See also

plotting_context

return a dictionary of rc parameters, or use in a with statement to temporarily set the context.

set_style

set the default parameters for figure style

set_palette

set the default color palette for figures

Examples

>>> set_context("paper")

>>> set_context("talk", font_scale=1.4)

>>> set_context("talk", rc={"lines.linewidth": 2})