seaborn.plotting_context¶

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

Get the parameters that control the scaling of plot elements.

This affects things like the size of the labels, lines, and other elements of the plot, but not the overall style. This is accomplished using the matplotlib rcParams system.

The base context is “notebook”, and the other contexts are “paper”, “talk”, and “poster”, which are version of the notebook parameters scaled by different values. Font elements can also be scaled independently of (but relative to) the other values.

This function can also be used as a context manager to temporarily alter the global defaults. See set_theme() or set_context() to modify the global defaults for all plots.

Parameters

contextNone, dict, 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.

Examples

Calling with no arguments will return the current defaults for the parameters that get scaled:

sns.plotting_context()

{'font.size': 10.0,
 'axes.labelsize': 'medium',
 'axes.titlesize': 'large',
 'xtick.labelsize': 'medium',
 'ytick.labelsize': 'medium',
 'legend.fontsize': 'medium',
 'axes.linewidth': 0.8,
 'grid.linewidth': 0.8,
 'lines.linewidth': 1.5,
 'lines.markersize': 6.0,
 'patch.linewidth': 1.0,
 'xtick.major.width': 0.8,
 'ytick.major.width': 0.8,
 'xtick.minor.width': 0.6,
 'ytick.minor.width': 0.6,
 'xtick.major.size': 3.5,
 'ytick.major.size': 3.5,
 'xtick.minor.size': 2.0,
 'ytick.minor.size': 2.0,
 'legend.title_fontsize': None}

Calling with the name of a predefined style will show those values:

sns.plotting_context("talk")

{'axes.linewidth': 1.875,
 'grid.linewidth': 1.5,
 'lines.linewidth': 2.25,
 'lines.markersize': 9.0,
 'patch.linewidth': 1.5,
 'xtick.major.width': 1.875,
 'ytick.major.width': 1.875,
 'xtick.minor.width': 1.5,
 'ytick.minor.width': 1.5,
 'xtick.major.size': 9.0,
 'ytick.major.size': 9.0,
 'xtick.minor.size': 6.0,
 'ytick.minor.size': 6.0,
 'font.size': 18.0,
 'axes.labelsize': 18.0,
 'axes.titlesize': 18.0,
 'xtick.labelsize': 16.5,
 'ytick.labelsize': 16.5,
 'legend.fontsize': 16.5,
 'legend.title_fontsize': 18.0}

Use the function as a context manager to temporarily change the parameter values:

with sns.plotting_context("talk"):
    sns.lineplot(x=["A", "B", "C"], y=[1, 3, 2])