Introduction

Matplotlib provides many features to customize all the attributes of a figure. It also offers many different ways to achieve the same feature that gives maximum flexibility and a variety of choices. In this chapter, we will cover the standard features available with each of the figure attributes, such as colors, labels, titles, legends, ticks, spines, styles, hatches, and annotation. Advanced topics such as property cycles, transforms, GridSpec, and Path effects will be covered in Chapter 6, Plotting with Advanced Features.